Re: 2.20 and 2.21 release plans

[David Kastrup]

Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Montag, den 17.02.2020, 14:59 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup:
>
>> Yes, GUB for 2.21.0.  We don't want to have another indeterminate
>> backlog on unstable releases.  That means that GUB needs to get switched
>> over to Python 3.
>
> For those following along: It's not that we need to convert GUB to
> Python 3, just switch the dependencies of the LilyPond spec.
>
>> It may make it more prudent, should we need to
>> release 2.20.1 at some time, to also go to the cherry-picking nightmare
>> required to bring stable/2.20 up to Python 3.
>
> My point of view remains: Just keep an old version of GUB around and
> we're fine for 2.20.x, x > 0.

In the end, it will depend on how it works out for the person creating
the releases, I guess.

-- 
David Kastrup