Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Well, we only release a major version ever 2 - 3 years. So we should take > the time to bring it to a shape that we can advertise it. For example if > there is e.g. an issue with the installation, press people don't give a > program a good review. The same is with incomplete translations.
You speak about advertising a lot, and I agree that it would be nice to have a good adverstising campaign. However, we do not sell LyX, so advertising is not essential. IMHO we simply do not have the man power to do such sophisticated adverstising as you'd like it to have: We cannot afford it, and if we'd try, we would never see a 2.1.0 release. Given that precondition, it is much better to release without any advertising. I agree with you that several timings in the 2.1 release process were not good in the past, and there was unneeded confusion and weeks without any progress. However, I am very glad that Vincent found the time again to finally do the release, and I think we all should thank him for that, work together and help to make the release as good as possible. Georg PS: If all developers agree to adopt a more "continous integration" like development style it is easy to release every year or so.
