Graham Percival <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:23:57PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor Daniels" >> <[email protected]> >> >> >a) a release-meister with responsibility to take all decisions. >> >That's what Han-Wen used to do, I believe. It worked >> >quite well, although Graham will have more of an inside view >> >than I. > > It worked well in general, but not without a few quirks. The > 2.12 release caught many people off guard: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-12/msg00553.html > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-12/msg00602.html > I also recall that the translators wanted additional notice so > that they could clear up some loose ends before a major stable > release. > > The current setup was in large part a reaction to that confusion > -- make it absolutely clear to absolutely everybody when a release > would happen, and therefore avoid any "panic list" of major > problems discovered in the actual release.
Well, it makes perfect sense to announce release plans and decision criteria in advance when imminent within a short time span. I would expect this to catch fewer people off-guard than springing a release on them according to some rules written years before in the CG. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
