On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > Once 2.12 is out and we've succeeded in setting up GUB3 on > kainhofer, I'll become the Release Manager. I have two ideas on > how to change things: > > 1) Move to a linux kernel type of releases: instead of having > separate devel and stable branches, we just do everything in 2.12. > In some ways, we've been doing this already; we haven't touched > 2.10 in quite a while. > > 2) Keep the distinction between stable and devel, but tie it to > the input syntax, and allow for much faster releases. In > particular, there would be *no* convert-ly rules for 2.12. New > constructs would be fine, but any patches that would change > existing syntax would be delayed until 2.13.
Sounds like an excellent idea - I would exempt changes introduced after 2.12.0 from the no syntax changes, though. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel