Re: no movement on Critical issues; 2.16 in Oct ?

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Sunday, July 31, 2011 8:42 AM


> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I haven't seen any interest in
> >   http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1771
>
> My take on this (if nobody is going to protest in the next few 
> hours) is
> to revert the flawed fix.

+1

> The original bug fixer does not appear to be in the queue for 
> fixing the
> effects of his patch, and the patch adds a considerable amount of
> material.

Fixing LilyPond is rarely trivial.  In my experience the
first fix one thinks of is usually flawed (and the
second ...)  We need to be doubly cautious when applying
fixes from casual contributors.

Trevor



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