I think we can ship 1.4 with change tracking. The status is not worse (even a
bit better) than the unofficial 1.3 version that has been distributed
separately, and AFAIK people have used that for their daily work.
I would also like to see change tracking in LyX 1.4. Actually, this feature alone would justify increasing the version number from 1.3 straight to 2.0!
What I am most concerned about is: Will there be any fundamental code changes right after the release of LyX 1.4? Or in other words: Can we guarantee that the remaining open bugs can be fixed (easily) in the stable 1.4.X branch? Maybe Alfredo and Andre can share their feelings about this issue with us...?
Regards, Michael