Re: Releasing 2.20

[Paul]

On 06/07/2017 04:34 PM, David Kastrup wrote:

> tomorrow I am leaving for physical therapy.

Hope it goes well David!

> So how is it going to end up?  Barring objections, I'll probably branch
> off a stable release branch early next week.  I'll have to see what to
> cherry-pick into this branch as fixes proceed, and possibly what to
> revert when it is not clear that functionality provided by recent
> patches/changes can be considered stable in use and interface.
>
> I don't think that we should need much more than the 3-week maturing
> period corresponding to the expected physical therapy duration.
>
> The alternative of releasing 2.18.3 since 2.18.2 does not even compile
> using gcc-7 anymore is something I want to avoid.
>
> So I'd rather pitch for a timely release of 2.20.  There have been a few
> critical bugs flagged, however.  I'll take a look at them eventually but
> if someone else has a good idea...

Sounds good to me.  I have a few things I'd like to get into the stable 
release, one way or another, if possible.

- Some CSS edits for the docs that I started but havent 
finished/submitted for review yet.  I'll try to get that done in the 
next few days if I can.

- Might be worth looking again at issue 3884, either to just go with the 
initial patch for now, or try for one of the other approaches in that 
discussion?
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/3884/

- This doesn't really matter, but it might be worth renaming the 
"staffLineLayoutFunction" context property (which is not really about 
staff lines...) to something better, maybe 
"pitchToStaffPositionFunction" or pitchToStaffPositionProcedure"? (It 
takes a pitch and returns an integer indicating a vertical staff 
position.  It's used in note-heads-engraver.cc)

Let me know any thoughts on these things,
-Paul