Re: Fixing regressions and serious issues

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 20/07/2022 à 11:39, Jonas Hahnfeld a écrit :
> On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 17:38 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2022-05/msg00099.html,
> > we talked about targeting the end of this year for the next
> > stable release. That probably means branching around
> > the beginning of September, right?
> Possibly, yes. If wanted, I can try and prepare a "draft timeline"
> based on what we did two years ago and what needs to happen until
> around what deadline...


For me at least, that would be helpful.


> > I'd like to call for attention on the regressions we have
> > <https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=Regression>
> > as well as some other serious things that should go
> > into this release: basically, (assuming branching in September)
> > there is a month and a half left to take care of those.
> > This is not all that long if not very short, especially since
> > some people (like me) tend to be less active in August.
> I agree, even though I'd like to note that only those marked ~Critical
> actually block the release. There are a number of ~Regression issues
> that have been there for 2.22.x or even 2.20.0. Whether we want to re-
> classify some of the more recent ones as ~Critical, is of course up for
> discussion. And fixing issues is obviously still a good idea 😉


You have a good point that which of these should block the
release is not very clear. I guess it would need discussion,
and the energy spent discussing will have been wasted if the
issue just gets fixed before the release, so for now I think
the best investment of energy (or my energy at least) is in
fixing as many as possible of these issues. If some remain by
the time we want to make the release, it will be time to discuss
whether they should block it.