Georg Baum schrieb:
On the scrollbar issue, what can I say? I more or less know what needs
to be done but I cannot do that without further cleanup. I'll promise to
do something for 1.5.1 but not now.
In order to destabilize 1.5.1 because of the cleanup?
I fully agree with Georg. If major changes are needed, they have to be
made now or they will never go into the 1.5.X branch!
In the past, stability increased with every minor release (1.X.1 =>
1.X.2 => 1.X.3 => ...), mainly because we did not allow big changes.
IMHO users (including myself) appreciate this approach, because they
don't have to think about whether it is safe to move to the next minor
release.
If you have plans for bigger modifications in the 1.5.X branch, please
let us know in advance so that we can decide on how to proceed.
Personally, I would not be willing to accept intrusive changes (though I
am not the one to decide).
IMO, we cannot wait forever that you
or I, or Bo, Andre, Michael or JMarc (...) have the time to fix all
remaining issues. IMHO, we cannot afford that or the 1.4.0 saga is going
to be repeated: no development done for a year or so.
Well, I don't think that we make no progress. In fact, we (i.e. you)
make great progress! And I see some light at the end of the tunnel: For
the very first time, we had less than open 500 bug reports today.
* http://tinyurl.com/2b9svn
(unconfirmed/new/assigned/reopened + no enhancement + no 1.6.0
target + not 'fixedintrunk')
This means that we finally fix bugs at a higher rate than new reports
arrive. There are only 44 bugs left being major, critical, or blocker.
I am very sad that LyX goes a way that IMO is not a good one (e.g. file
format changes happen without lyx2lyx change and even without discussion
What file format change are you talking about? Does it still break
backwards compatibility?
Michael
