Re: Major version: LilyPond 2.14.0 released!

[Nils]

Thats nearly the same thing as last year. And still "release early
release often" is the core absurdity.


Am Fri, 1 Apr 2011 02:19:16 +0100
schrieb Graham Percival <address@hidden>:

> GLASGOW, Scotland -- April 1, 2011 -- The LilyPond development
> team is proud to announce LilyPond 2.14, the latest stable release
> of our award-winning music engraver.  "Music notation for
> everyone" has never looked better!
>     http://lilypond.org
> 
> Following the open-source motto of "release early, release often",
> we are making 2.14 available now.  There are still a few
> regression bugs compared to 2.12, but we urge everybody to
> download 2.14.0 from the lilypond website when it becomes
> available and use it in their production systems.  Let us know if
> anything doesn't work; we love getting feedback!  We have
> introduced a new "bug voting" system on our website to allow us to
> better direct programmer effort:
>     http://lilypond.org/website/bug-reports.html
> 
> 
> Other major new features include:
>   * eyeglass markup, to remind musicians to watch the conductor
>     at critical moments.
>   * in tablature, frets can be indicated with colored letters
>     instead of numbers.
>   * The Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm is now fully supported
>     for single-line markup due to enhanced integration with
>     Pango, and we now use FT_Error in the prototype for
>     freetype_error_string().
>   * 128th note downstems are now 0.15 staff-spaces shorter.
> 
> The full list of new features is online here:
>     http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/changes/index.html
> 
> 
> Having music engraving!
> 
> Mike Solomon - Beaming, feathers, guy with no fear
> Janek Warchol - Upsteam, downstem, flags, feta-er
> David Kastrup - Keeping us honest by questioning
> Phil Holmes - Bug Meister, build system quester
> Benko Pal - Mensural notation, tonal inversion
> Ian Hulin - Guile 2.0 future portability guru
> Keith OHara - Fantastic regression bug fixer
> Neil Puttock - Core development, LSR import
> Xavier Scheuer - French stuffs, cautionary
> Patrick McCarty - SVG guru, texts handler
> Yoshiki Sawada - Japanese doc translator
> Nicolas Sceaux - Schemer extraordinaire
> Reinhold Kainhofer - musicxml2ly bloke
> Werner Lemberg - Fonts, bugz squasher
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen - Core development
> Han-Wen Nienhuys - Core development
> John Mandereau - Translation swain
> Trevor Daniels - Asst. doc editor
> Jonathan Kulp - Asst. doc editor
> Mark Polesky - Code cleanup-er
> Mats Bengtsson - Support guru
> Valentin Villenave - Web 2.0
> Carl Sorensen - Frog master
> Francisco Vila - ES writer
> Joe Neeman - Spacing guru
> Dmytro O. Redchuk - Bugs
> James Lowe - Doc gopher
> Colin Campbell - Ditto
> Marc Hohl - Bug nuker
> Graham Percival - me
>