Re: staging vs. staging-broken-dec23

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> Patchy is running every 6 hours at the moment (GMT / 6), and
> there's no rush to get another release out, so let's just put
> stuff into staging gradually.

Actually, doing

git log --oneline --decorate release/2.15.23-1..origin/staging-broken-dec-23 
eb1eabe (origin/staging-broken-dec-23) Release: bump version.
3c42cf5 Merge branch 'release/unstable' into staging
dae048a Emacs mode lines for parser.yy and lexer.ll
d32342b sed -i 's/PARSER/parser/g' lily/parser.yy
992a9d3 Tie LilyPond, lexer and parser together more type-safely.
364706d Make parser.cc and parser.hh independently to lessen parallel build prob
77cfd9e Web: remove web/ in some pathnames.
d82eb99 Adds Beam_collision_engraver to the Score context.
f3a43f0 Doc: Usage added note for Windows Users
aa6e1d7 Adds 0.5 of extra-spacing-width to either side of ChordName.
c7e244e Shows Flags in tabFullNotation
f4b2d8d page-layout-problem: break staff-affinity between systems
5ab0ada Fix beamlet pointing wrong way when tuplet 16th beamed with 8th (issue 2
e8038c8 Allow string numbers to have #f stencil without programming error (Issue
ab8c075 Regtest script: Add the prefix to the filename (e.g. input/regression).
a6e98c1 Regtest script: Output an header row at every change of directory.
d518d8d Regtest script: When filtering through js, don't filter out header rows.
cd5566e Regtest script: Allow to customize the length of shortened strings.
dec9be6 Build: Fix dependencies for translated manuals (issue 2125).
229e028 Build: Fix txt-to-html dependencies.
a544573 Build: Unify the rule for bib files.
01d0af4 Build: Unify the rules and variables for xref-map files.
3c7c453 Build: Update timestamp when linking files.
2525b18 Build: Fix a typo.
e6bdc5b Build: Dependencies for make website (issue 2027).
1b98754 Build: Fix a typo.
52c9d2f Build: Version dependency for python modules (issue 1726).

to see about a day's worth of development makes it hard to believe
LilyPond development is a project on the brink of stagnation.  Catching
up in chunks of 6 hours might be a challenge.  It might be worth a try
to teach a reasonably fast machine how to bisect mostly automatically
when Patchy diagnoses a failure.

-- 
David Kastrup