Ok folks, tomorrow I am leaving for physical therapy. I expect 3 weeks without extension since the problematic areas have boiled down considerably in the last two weeks already: swallowing is an ongoing nuisance, balance is pretty well but looking back when bicycling still is precarious in particular when something _is_ creeping up. And temperature and pain insensitivity on the left side and the mouth is something that also requires adaption. I am dealing reasonably well with my right hand though using it in "independent parts" like for finicky mechanical feats and for playing button accordion still shows some disposition for cramping up.
But all in all I'm down to somewhat particular complaints so it's my guess that 3 weeks of fulltime institutionalization will be sufficient for getting things on track sufficiently in order to revert to parttime afterwards. A number of people have wished me well, voiced their concerns and sent personal support. Most of them I haven't answered individually and apologize for that: I have a lot on my mind right now and the mind is not all that well-focused yet (and honestly, it wasn't all that well-focused before the stroke either). So putting out individual and appropriate responses well a bit through the cracks. I have to see how much of a taxation therapy will turn out to be. I got my computer with me and I have installed a WWAN card and got some data plan that should at least be good for email and issue updates. Reception is pretty bad out in the woods here (I don't really have a dedicated antenna but have instead sacrificed a Wifi antenna in the laptop) but my expectation is that the institution will likely have a cell tower close enough for Email to get in and out reliably enough. So I should be able to do some reasonably straightforward work. So how is it going to end up? Barring objections, I'll probably branch off a stable release branch early next week. I'll have to see what to cherry-pick into this branch as fixes proceed, and possibly what to revert when it is not clear that functionality provided by recent patches/changes can be considered stable in use and interface. I don't think that we should need much more than the 3-week maturing period corresponding to the expected physical therapy duration. The alternative of releasing 2.18.3 since 2.18.2 does not even compile using gcc-7 anymore is something I want to avoid. So I'd rather pitch for a timely release of 2.20. There have been a few critical bugs flagged, however. I'll take a look at them eventually but if someone else has a good idea... -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel