Re: stemlength II

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:30 AM, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
>>> OK.  http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1613
>>
>> I am testing a fix for this; it was an oversight of mine.
>>
>> Graham,
>>
>> this issue was exposed due to a (seemingly innocuous) one-line change
>> by Mike.  Can I ask that you branch off the 2.14 branch so the release
>> candidate does not get disturbed by other one-liners with unintended
>> effects?  If you don't branch off a stable branch, 2.14 will never get
>> finished.
>
> I agree -  I think that if we branch off 2.14 after we fix the three 
> remaining critical issues (all of which seem to have been recently 
> introduced) and if everyone holds off on pushing new stuff for a bit (my 
> MultiMeasureRest work, for example, won't make it into 2.14.0), we can still 
> sit on it for a week or two before building it with GUB.  During this 
> incubation phase, we'd only apply patches that fix critical or high priority 
> problems.

The beauty of branching off is that nobody needs to hold off anything.
 You just continue to put stuff in master (2.15.0), and cherry-pick
whatever needs to go to 2.14.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen