Re: Draft plan for next stable release

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Sun, 2022-08-07 at 21:02 +0200, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on
LilyPond development wrote:
> 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. I'm trying to take some of my availabilities into account,
> let's see how it works out...
> 
> 
> Weekend of August 20/21: LilyPond 2.23.12

So, this will already slip because there are a number of build system
changes that still need to get in (fix for Cygwin, adding Cairo to the
binaries, fixing symbolic links to the Python wrapper scripts). I will
try to do it early next week, else the weekend after...

> 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)

Very likely going to be the weekend of September 17/18 then...

> During week of September 19-25: Branching stable/2.24 unless some
> really big problems are reported

I *hope* we can keep this because I'm on travel the week after. But
we'll see what happens.

> [ branch is frozen, no new features or syntax changes; master is open
> again for development 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)

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