On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Graham Percival <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Does this mean you do not want to make any difference between odd and >> even versions? > > No. .13 would be the "devel" version, where syntax changes are > introduced, and any major breakage occurs. It would last as long > as necessary to fix the major breakage and everybody to get their > syntax changes introduced. Then .14 would be released. > > Ideally, I'd shoot for 6 months of .12, 2 months of .13, then .14. > I mean, if there's no syntax changes and no major breakage, then > there's no point stopping .12 and calling it .13. Now, 6 months > without syntax changes is probably a bit long at this point, so > .12 might only be 3 months. But hopefully .14 or .16 could have a > longer stable branch. It would be really nice if we could invert the rhythms of stable/devel: have a long stable cycle with many releases (like 2.11 had), and then have a flurry of 2.13 releases which introduce incompatibilities, and push out 2.14 asap. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [email protected] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
