Re: What is holding up 2.20 release?

[David Kastrup]

Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear Team,
>
> It seems to me like we are pretty much in shape such that we should
> release 2.20.  I'd be fine if we called 2.19.83-1 the 2.20 release,
> even if there are some critical regressions.  2.19.83 is SO much
> better than 2.18.2.
>
> IIUC, the only thing 2.20 is waiting on is for David K. to cherry-pick
> some patches.  Is that correct?

And putting out a new prerelease to be sure that those are ok, and
waiting for the translators to catch up with cherry-picked patches
containing stuff to be translated.

But the current roadblock is David K. cherry-picking some patches.  Here
is a remaining list (not completely up to date with current master,
though not missing much) to check for possible inclusion (assuming I
have not overlooked something important pickable in the sequence
before).  If you see something important here (or something not in
current master), put in a word for it.

ef2cc5e684 Issue 5471/1: relocate.cc: Add `indent' parameter to `sane_putenv'
d6428b77b6 Issue 5471/2: main.cc, relocate.cc: Improve relocation debug messages
19da23977f Issue 5471/3: relocate.cc: Don't use double forward slashes in file 
names
88980c4f92 Fix #5474: progerror when creating an undefined grob
0f5c046811 Functions to invert chords or drop/rise chord notes
6f1cf6c2b5 Add regtest for chord inversions and voicings
ddef2aa7b6 Issue 5472/1: yaffut.hh: Fix compilation warning
e37310a8e9 Issue 5472/2: flower/file-name.cc: Fix canonical file name 
representation
3bd7050543 Issue 5468: yyout2grammar.py: Various fixes
0deb785f64 Update texinfo.tex from Texinfo git master branch
cb1963c46a Web: update online editors section.
965a607096 Fix #1367: NoteNames context in any language
ed86e71eb0 Use "simple strings" rather than #"hash-prefixed Scheme strings"
3aeb41c27f Command line help: -o option takes either FILE or FOLDER as arg.
e94db23e6c C++ cleanup : get rid of some compilation warnings
804faebc79 Issue 5481/1: main.cc, relocate.cc: Minor code clean-up
7200d7365b Issue 5481/2: running.itely: Document relocation
e9c082d4d4 Issue 5481/3: flower/file-name.cc: Better handling of `.' and `..'
f0c3e7461e Issue 5481/4: relocate.cc: Rewrite relocation algorithm
5eb848b59b Issue 5484: set doubleRepeatType fallback to default
b05de1da2a pitches.itely: Fix typos and improve look of accidental name tables.
dceebb052f Website: use VERSION_DEVEL rather than MAJOR.MINOR
5eb392ddd5 Issue 5485: avoid -Wsequence-point warning
cdfb8f3fd3 Do not build PDFs from the website Texinfo sources - issue 5482
3ba581df6a Issue 5490: fix for wrong clefs.varC_change
2afb45bd85 Issue 5489/1: improve prall glyphs
56942ccc5f Issue 5489/2: rename trilelement → trillelement
1284c743b0 Issue 5487/1: add very short and Henze fermatas
77b98cbbc6 Issue 5487/2: add new fermatas to Changes doc
5a88042cc8 Scripts: Removed references to gmane
879f5b1da5 Doc: NR 4.2.2 - remove deprecated @knownissue
a99f7f83c8 Doc: Usage - Invoking Musicxml2ly - add missing switches
19677c83b0 Makelsr.py run for previous commits
464cf0d811 Fix #687: Include MIDI swing script in default distribution
13dc8b9c72 Issue 5498: Revert "Merge branch 'issue4914'"
a39c23d554 Release: bump VERSION_DEVEL.
941dfa8bed Release: update news.
54de6a24c5 Release: bump Welcome versions.
1b1b06dbc7 NR: Document usage of \change at beginning of staff.
45dedd482d Add warning message for unknown code in fret-diagram-verbose
6508284378 Clean up problems with fret-diagram-terse markups
0e6f55bb17 Change hardcoded pair to cons call for return -- remove ugh comment
64a61d9b5d Doc: extending: Fix after-line-breaking example.
c05184b3ff CG: Typo for British and American English locales
c415cb98c3 Issue 5502: NR: Add many function index entries
e0d597aed3 Typo in \oval docstring
0f047e3514 Fix German quarter tone pitch names.
f3d46cd65d Fix commit b05de1da2abe0a6d3e0eac8202ea45ba41ff47df.
9c0e1363ac Issue #5506: Add tremolo stem support to \cueDuring
9d9dc55729 Issue 5501: Avoid failed assertion in stem tremolo code
3008803555 Doc: NR added @knownissue re midi block with polymetric notation
db818c1220 ly: Adding turkish-makam.ly
f4e30857e1 Doc: Usage - Better description of -dcrop in Usage chapter 1.2
a7ef349f29 Doc: LM + NR - Typos \addlyrics and \lyricmode
ed0212b1dc Doc: Internals - clarify stem-length is in half staff space units
03f78e3e7b Doc: NR - 2.10.2 - Arabic Music - improved example
c511518a4e makelsr run for previous commit
d0730c389d Issue 5510 Add doc-string for allowVoltaHook
bd05971b2a Issue 5509 Reflect new syntax in example of 
define-grob-properties.scm
6ecee87252 Minor NR corrections.
8d7c176b45 Issue 5511/1: add articulation support to MMRs
4424b153c0 Issue 5511/2: deprecate \fermataMarkup
453fa92e43 Issue 5511/3: update regression tests
200658ca20 Issue 5511/4: doc: NR and Changes
59284fa692 Issue 5511/5: doc: Update translated docs
e8ad7f0c78 Minor.
ab8e7e4d89 Issue 5513: Avoid some crashes for bad "control-points" property
ff348fa75a Issue 5486/1: add very short/Henze fermata commands
c9286e87ee Issue 5486/2: add fermata commands to NR
a33f922e0f Pondings: fixed URL for Ben Lemon
bc46cc1fef Documentation: elaborate NR `custom percussion’ section
29c5443642 Issue 5519/1: Give NoteNames context an \alias Staff
f669227b46 Issue 5519/2: fix regtest accidental-voice
cfee7a3a26 Issue 5518 Document bound-details (sub-)properties in 
line-spanner-cc for IR
a53d6523dc lily/GNUmakefile: `sources.o' depends on `parser.hh'
e71c3c2725 Issue 5523: add `-Wno-sequence-point' to g++ CFLAGS for Guile 1.8
1272e45b49 Issue 5526 Add ly version to swing.ly
f9fe10bde4 Doc: NR - 2.10 World Music Turkish Classical additions
77b2c39186 Makelsr for previous commit
2513916bed Web: 'Productions' - introduction.itexi additions and corrections
0e1eeb7838 aclocal.m4: Whitespace and formatting.
bc4f5fdc29 Add glib-2.0 and gobject-2.0 library dependency
4cc884ee09 ly: turkish-makam.ly - minor edit to sultaniyegah
189cfb95ea Doc: NR 2.9 Ancient Notation - add verbatim to @lilypond example for 
custodes
00b4c4c757 Doc: NR - expressive.itely - accidentals for naturals using pitched 
trills
03f4723afc Issue 5520/1: Improvements to \ambitusAfter
2b52bc2bf1 Issue 5520/2: add \ambitusAfter to Changes
17d3d3a151 Issue 4362/1: head completion uses dotted breves
49f41bf1c6 Issue 4362/2: add regtest
47f74e11cf Doc: Use new syntax throughout all doc and examples
1d4717d0db NR: 2.10 Arabic Music - inlcude references to hel-arabic.ly
7ecc24c5e8 Issue #5524 New function css-color (accompanying x11-color)
53739c0ae6 Issue 5303 - Misplaced Notehead
3300acdd8d Issue 5532/1: \ottava doesn’t confuse ambitus
04a0052411 Issue 5532/2: add regtest
c5f63d33bf Add tex/txi-pt.tex
77b816a48f Issue 5535: Build logging: Improve METAFONT tracing
7583351fbf Optimize tree.gittxt messages
ebc35cb7b6 web:development: Make Release Numbers more current
34a114b835 Revert "Optimize tree.gittxt messages"
b62d62e402 Optimize tree.gittxt messages (v 2)
39c9d91c46 Fix relocate-preamble.py bug
a77f387207 Fix musicxml2ly.py / Python 2.4.5 incompatibility
3f0b5c61a7 Issue 5541: treat CENTER in Side_position_interface::aligned_side
42c45c5dfc Web: update old links to Ben Lemon tutorials
cf600cc6f8 mf/README: Describe creation of Emmentaler fonts.
6b789abd46 ly: hel-arabic - comment out Sahnaz entry
2165edafc5 Issue 5551/1: better indexing support
1eed54e8ff Issue 5551/2: improve generated documentation
714792a1eb Issue 5552/1: HOWTO.index: new guide for creating index entries
b2799c1823 Issue 5552/2: NR: complete revision of all index entries
227fac3a04 We now need texinfo 6.1 or newer.
e926c294e3 Issue 5553: fix handling of @lilypond[verbatim]
89036755a7 Replace code.google.com by SourceForge
805e6ef94c bach-schenker.ly: Completely revised.
be39d353b7 Rename `Stockhausen_Klavierstueck2' to `stockhausen-klavierstueckII'.
a6f8381ea4 stockhausen-klavierstueckII: Completely rewritten.
1d3105fce4 run-and-check: Show output directory in case of error.
0457814df4 string-tunings-init: Fix typo in Banjo tuning.
4402d6c545 Issue 5555/1: reorder checks in add_post_events for efficiency
eed07c3e54 Issue 5555/2: add_post_events: check for time-scaled-music explicitly
ab3b23941f Issue 5555/3: TimeScaledMusic should not be music-wrapper-music
c2b424f9f8 Remove old make-countdown-announcement.sh
71c4990e47 run-and-check: Display correct log file directory.
9bef63308f Issue 5557: Remove spurious '% begin verbatim' in 
Documentation/snippets/new
1d255547ba Run scripts/auxiliar/makelsr.py
3064ac9d3d Issue 5558/1: NR: add many index entries for snippets
7930d8777e Issue 5558/2: NR: various minor corrections
09bc2e2ed7 Issue 5560: remove script-chart.ly
2c2908c905 Issue 5563: make edges of brackets dashable
7e6a956625 Issue 5561/5562: slurs work without NoteHead stencil
476194c706 Issue 5559/1: Add user-definable ottava markups
608aa55988 Issue 5559/2: add regtest
6f319a862d Issue 5556/3: make OttavaBracket text default bold
2f1649830b Issue 5559/4: fix regression (ambitus with ottava)
d9555cda14 Issue 5565: simplify python-related makefiles
c95d96aa71 Typo.
058c7347c1 granados.ly: Improved and updated.
5674d4570d NR: add snippet to describe `NoteCollision.prefer-dotted-right'
b7532cf6e6 Issue 5568: make build output terse by default
cd11e1d06e Update python headers to match surrounding files
fa6c70e39a Issue 5567: allow slurs instead of brackets with tuplets
a6a6f019a9 Fix header variables from musicxml2ly on Windows
2d45d5247e Drop requirement for python-devel
75b16466ef Issue 5564: fix conversion warnings in beaming code
8ba40d3d69 Issue 5571: streamline cat | sed | sed
0c0a07a6d7 Issue #5574: freetype.cc: fix compiler warnings
0d7744aad0 Issue 5572/1: Compile modified C++ files automatically before testing
73aaa6d299 Issue 5572/2: Contributor's Guide updates
306fc6b509 Issue 5576: make output-distance less verbose by default
ad3effb756 Check additional names for guile-config
dbe42f9940 Issue 5583: www_post.py: don't mirror regtest baseline
014ec06a9f python: replace <> with !=
911788f173 Issue 5578: add a button to flip between old and new regtest images
2823ff0e87 Issue 5579: fix stem tremolo on rests crash
3903d2efc7 Issue 5577: scripts/build: Remove unused scripts


> I'd really like to see us get something out as 2.20 by the first of
> the year.  What can I do to help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl
> 
>

-- 
David Kastrup