Georg Baum wrote: > Dear all, > > I must admit that I am quite unhappy with the current situation. While I am > pretty sure that there are good reasons why Vincent cannot spend more time > on LyX currently, we really need a beta release. I am thinking of simply > merging the 2.1-staging branch and releasing that. Even if that would > introduce a new bug I believe that an imperfect beta now is better than none > in the next few months. > > Vincent, are you able to release the beta during the next 3-4 days? If not, > I suggest that we look for somebody else to do it (this does not necessarily > mean to manage the whole 2.1 release, but just the beta). I would volunteer > myself, but as you can see I am currently not more available than Vincent, > so this does not make sense.
I agree, and I was about to write something similar. I think 2.1-staging is safe, and AFAICS there are no urgent outstanding fixes now (the patches not yet committed can go in after the beta). I am also busy these days, but I can at least help setting up the beta release. Jürgen > Georg
