Re: State of the pond

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On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Graham Percival wrote:

> We have a new release candidate, slower development, highlights on
> development problems, and a vacation.
> 
> 
> SLOWER DEVELOPMENT
> 
> Development has slowed to a trickle.  I'm not certain if this is
> just because it's late spring (i.e. busy academic time), or if
> people are holding their breaths waiting for the stable release
> (i.e. not putting forward any major patches), or just everybody
> getting older.
> 

I'm still working on a long-term skyline project w/ Joe.

My summer of Lily agenda has bits and pieces of projects in it but nothing 
major for the moment - I am always open to ideas, though!  I think we'll see a 
big boost in Lyrics after Janek's work on it this summer.

> 
> DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS
> 
> The lack of interested mentors is a problem.

I'm always willing to give pointers - sorry if I haven't been attentive on the 
list.  I'll contact these people.

> 
> VACATION
> 
> On a personal note, I'm off to Europe from May 8 to 24, seeing
> Zurich, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Prague, and Germany (in that
> order).

Gute Reise!

Cheers,
MS