Am Montag, den 01.01.2018, 05:06 -0500 schrieb Scott Kostyshak: > Let's go ahead with the beamer changes for 2.3.0. There seems to be > strong opinions that the improvements are a clear step forward and > that > it is worth doing it this late in the release process because it > improves on an apparently big confusion by LyX beamer users.
Thank you. I know such latecomers are not the release manager's pleasure. > As José > suggests, an alternative is to have a short 2.4.0 release cycle, but > given our history I'm not sure how likely that is. Right. It has always been a good wish. > I would be fine with the more conservative approach of doing the > format > change now and phasing in the UI later (after testing in master) if > others prefer. But I suggest going all in now so that there are not > such > big UI and documentation differences within the stable releases. > > I believe that Uwe is not going to be available to build the Windows > binary for the next month, so we will not be able to get rc2 out soon > anyway. In fact, I think the last day Uwe will be able to work on LyX > for a while is on Tuesday. Jürgen, you might want to commit as soon > as > possible to the 2.3.x branch so that if Uwe has time before he leaves > he > can check the documentation and distribute the changes. Done now. Note that I have already distributed all changes. > I'm guessing that follow-up commits will be desired to smooth things > out. Jürgen, please only go ahead if you know you will have time and > interest in the next month to fix any issues. You have done so much > recently (thank you!) that if you sense you are getting burned out, I > would not blame you. In this case, let's not commit anything to the > 2.3.x branch and instead let's just wait for 2.4.0. I know what I am responsible for. Even though the time frame will now become smaller again. > I will be traveling the next few days. Especially for the next day, > I'm > not sure if I will check my email. When I can, the next thing I will > spend time on will be translations. > > Thanks everyone for the advice, patches, testing, and good > discussions. Thank you. And Happy New Year everybody. Jürgen > > Scott
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