Re: Draft plan for next stable release

[Jean Abou Samra]

> Le 7 août 2022 à 21:02, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond 
> development <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> a écrit :
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> back in May, I proposed the idea to have a next stable release before
> the end of the year and there was generally agreement in the replies:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2022-05/msg00099.html
> 
> The following is a proposal of a possible timeline; I don't expect this
> to be final and if there are good reasons, I think we can and should
> change it.

Agreed.

> I'm trying to take some of my availabilities into account,
> let's see how it works out...
> 
> 
> (I don't have time to do a release next weekend, August 13/14)
> Weekend of August 20/21: LilyPond 2.23.12
> after: build freeze; no changes to configure, Makefiles, and release/
> scripts allowed unless there are very good reasons
> 
> Weekend of September 10/11 OR 17/18: LilyPond 2.23.13
> (depends on my availabilities, I will have to see)
> 
> During week of September 19-25: Branching stable/2.24 unless some
> really big problems are reported
> 
> [ branch is frozen, no new features or syntax changes; master is open
> again for development



Is open again for development of build stuff, right? Or do you see more 
freezing happening?


> and I will pick fixes into the stable branch;
> translation work continues on the branch and I'll synchronize back to
> master during the releases ]
> 
> Weekend of October 1/2: release candidate LilyPond 2.23.80
> 
> Weekend of October 29/30 OR November 5/6: LilyPond 2.23.81
> 
> End of November or begin of December: final LilyPond 2.24.0; or, if
> needed, additional release candidate 2.23.82 (in that case hopefully
> rather November and then final release around mid December)
> 
> 
> Comments?



In general, sounds like a good plan to me.

Thanks,
Jean


> 
> Jonas

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