Hello, I have turned on the release flag for rc1. I have done that in order to guarantee that we are building/running lyx with the same compiler flags used to build rc1. Not only that but I have been using lyx-1.6.0 for my daily work for the last week. So far I like what I see. :-)
My first goal is to remove every dataloss bug before releasing rc1. I am also interested in installation bugs. If we want users to test this release we should try to give them something minimally stable and that resembles the final (modulo bugs naturally). :-) Documentation and translations are free to go. For all other changes please ask, if some other developer agrees then you can proceed. The purpose of this mini-freeze is to avoid brown bag bugs. I would like to release a first candidate to rc1 next Monday, this follows our agreed schedule where RC1 was planned for today. If all goes well I would like to release on Tuesday or Wednesday. Regards and good weekend, -- José Abílio