busy developer's summary 7: stable or not stable? that is the question

[Janek Warchoł]

The most important topic in this week's discussions seems to be: "does
this patch deserve a 'stable' label or not?"

The latest discussion about stable release is here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2013-04/msg00225.html

And here are the problematic issues:

Allow slurs to break at barlines - previously pushed patch was found
out to be defective, and may get reverted.
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1698

Incorrect rest positioning - needs design to move forward (i.e. please
say what you think output should look like).
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3307

wrong stem rendering - some interesting work was done by David, but
the results are not fully satisfactory.  Currently marked as
needs_work.  http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2658

dots in chords - needs deciding on what output do we actually want.
Will most probably wait for 2.19.
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3179

Also, point-and-click (particularly on Windows) is being actively discussed.

hth,
Janek