Here's where we stand.
STABLE RELEASE Almost everybody wants stable releases more frequently. They attract positive attention, they get updated docs and bugfixes and new features into the hands of users, etc. We had the first two release candidates back in Sep. Unfortunately, we've had Critical issues since then. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list?can=2&mode=grid There's one spacing regression (found 42 hours ago) which can probably be fixed easily. But there's also 3 problems in GUB that have seen no action for a month or more. I know that some people tried to work on GUB but found that they couldn't build it on ubuntu 11.10. It's just possible that the regression in gcc 4.6 was to blame... but without any action on GUB, we don't really know. Given the lack of interest[1] in stable releases, I guess that 2.16 might occur some time in summer 2012? [1] recall that I define "interest" as "people submitting or discussing patches". DEVELOPMENT We've got a series of measures to automate patch-handling; I estimate that these will eliminate about 90% of regressions that occur in master. A quick summary of our new development process is in CG 1.3 (not online yet). I'm in the process of cleaning up the CG. I'm planning a big recruitment drive for new contributors in Jan 2012. It would be *really* helpful if we got as many "force multipliers" (i.e. "maintainability" issues in the tracker) resolved before then. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
