On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from
the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy
release.
I suspect we owe thanks to the people behind the Windows installers (Uwe
and Joost) for this. Making LyX more visible and easy to install might be
what "lured" them in :-)
Also, I think you did a very good job, never discouraging anybody from
contributing their ideas.
I agree!
The only thing I'd propose to change (and here is the "maintainer" in me
speaking): we could be a bit more rigid if some stage in the development
cycle is reached, starting some more rigid "bug fixing only" stage
eventually. Secondly, I think that we should reconsider the meaning of
the term "release candidate" :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is
something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if
no really crucial problem occurs while testing it.
I'm inclined to agree, and it's not that different from the
current description (http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UnsortedNotes)
Release candidate (prerelease)
A release candidate is a release of the LyX software from the
development source code at a point when only bug fixes are
expected to be added before the first stable release. If the bug
fix requires a file format change then OK.
The question is how José interprets the above.
/Christian
PS. José is the original author of that descirption.
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
