Sorry for the slow response - I'm having trouble with my copy of the source
(too much tinkering...not enough sleep...).  Could someone please run the
appropriate regtests on Neil's patch and see if it breaks anything?

Cheers,
MS 


On 9/22/10 12:11 PM, "Graham Percival" <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:

> Here's an update on the release plans.  These are not cast in
> stone; if you have a thoughtful objection or suggestion, I'm
> willing to change things.
> 
> 1) 2.13.34, "alpha test" has been released.
> 2) website has been switched over.  At first glance, I think I can
> close issue 1244 now, but I want to double-check and wait for
> feedback.
> 3) after 1244 is done, there's only one remaning Critical issue;
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1173
> 
> NB: I expect approximately 5 more regressions to be reported in
> the next week.  Some of them might not be regressions in code that
> worked deliberately.  Bug Squad (if you read -devel): add any
> regression as a Critical issue; if a programmer points out that it
> only worked by a fluke in the past and downgrades it to Medium,
> that's totally fine.  That's how the system is supposed to work. :)
> 
> 4) if a bunch of development has occurred but Critical issues
> remain, I'll release 2.13.35 as a "second alpha test".  Repeat as
> necessary.
> 
> 5) Once we have 0 Critical issues, I'll branch stable/2.14 from
> master, and make a "release candidate" from that.  We now wait 2
> weeks.
> 
> Development can continue as usual on master.  The translation
> meister can backport translation patches to stable/2.14 if he
> wants; other people leave it alone.
> 
> 6) if a Critical issue is reported, the clock resets.  Once we
> have a bugfix, that gets backported to stable/2.14.  No other
> changes to stable/2.14 occur[*].  I make a second release candidate,
> and we go back to step 5.
> 
> 
> [*] I'm willing to be flexible on this point -- we might prefer to
> merge everything from master into stable/2.14, or cherry-pick
> minor bugfixes and doc changes, or whatever.  But my initial
> impulse is not to allow any non-Critical bugfixes, because I am
> bloody sick of seeing the number 2.13 and any change could have
> side effects.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham
> 
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