Hi Graham & all, 2011/4/3 Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca>: > Ok, now that any doubts about my meta-april fool's joke are over, > I'd like to sound out opinions about 2.14. > > > GOOD NEWS > > I think we've finally resolved our "technical debt" -- it's been a > while since I've seen Critical issues that were introduced over a > year ago. The remaining Critical issues are things that we > introduced in the past 2-3 weeks. > > > BAD NEWS > > On the bad side of things, we have Critical issues that we > introduced in the past 2-3 weeks. If those bugs hadn't slipped > in, then my April fool's joke might not have been a joke. > > ... wow, that would have been an even better meta-joke. Almost > everybody would think it _was_ a prank, but then when it turned > out that the binaries were actually there... lol, eh? :)
wondeful indeed :) > CHOICE TIME > > For the past few months, I've been occupied with teaching, so I > deliberately decided that I wouldn't jump up and down and try to > get a stable release out. If it happened, it'd happen; if not, no > worries. We had four release candidates, starting on 12 Jan until > a few days ago. > > Development at the moment feels "comfortable". That's not > necessarily a bad thing, of course! But I don't think that we're > getting as much done as we _could_ be doing. > > > I'm reminded of the dilemma faced by conductors of amateur > orchestras (and probably choirs, theatrical groups, etc). Some > people (such as myself) like a strict conductor who always demands > their best; rehearsals are always stressful, but very productive > and (to me) fulfilling. Other people prefer a relaxed atmosphere; > they come to orchestra after a hard day's work, they haven't > touched their instrument in the past week... but they have enough > stress in their lives and certainly won't put up with a conductor > yelling at them. Neither group is objectively "right"; it's > simply a question of deciding what type of orchestra you want to > have. > > In a similar way, I'm wondering how we want to approach the next > few weeks. When somebody introduces a regression, should we frown > at them (and maybe revert the bad commit), or just shrug and > laugh? Should we try to have a "sprint" towards resolving the > current crop of Critical issues and get 2.14 out the door, or just > let it happen "when it happens"? I prefer having a "relaxed" attitude. However, if anyone would discover that any of my patches introduces a regression, i would urge to revert it myself. I don't want to go too GOPish (there will be time for that), so just in a nutshell: let's not yell at people, but let's consider reverting probematic commits a valid way of solving a regression. cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel