Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>>>> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> writes: > >>> | think that the current practice works quite well. > Bo> Well, I spent two days to check cygwin, and the patch could not go > Bo> in. > > You should have spent two days two days earlier... > > Bo> I guess we should at least wait for verifications for all > Bo> platforms....(linux, 64bit, windows, cygwin, mac...). > > For the mac for example, Bennett routinely checks that it works. I > think the key to the stable releases is that people actually use them > during all the development period.
Yes. IMO it is not the task of the release manager to wait for success reports for a number of platforms. It is the task of those who care about a particular platform to make sure that it works. The default assumption should be that it works (we do no major changes after all), and this should be verified by people who use the stable branch for daily work. For example I guess I would have noticed the C-x problem that we fixed today several weeks ago if I would use LyX on windows. Georg
