Re: Minor releases?

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Tuesday 18 August 2009, John Mandereau wrote:
> Le lundi 17 août 2009 à 16:20 -0400, David Raleigh Arnold a écrit :
> > You do a great job summarizing the minor versions of the development
> > versions, but there is nothing in news-gmane-lilypond.devel about 
stable 
> > minor changes.
> 
> The only changes in stable releases so far have been bugfixes (that 
can
> listed for each release at our Google tracker) and documentation
> improvments backported from development branch (which have been only
> detailed in git commit messages so far).
> 
> 
> > There is no CHANGES document in my lilypond tree.
> 
> There will be Documentation/changes.tely in next release of the source
> tree, which will show as Documentation/changes.{html,pdf} in the docs
> tarball and web site.  This document was previsously named NEWS.
> 
> 
> >   What 
> > is a git log?
> 
> 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/master
> 
> It's only intended to be read by developers, contributors and curious
> people.
> 
> HTH,
> John
> 
What I do not understand is how "mere" bugfixes are irrelevant to the
user of stable releases. Seems to me that fixes are the most important
factors, if not the only factors, in making a choice of *minor* versions
of stable releases.  I don't see how the git file helps the user,
because there is usually ;-) more than a week between releases.  The
NEWS file does not explain the difference between 2.12.1 and 2.12.2.
Apparently, nothing does.

Perhaps you could solicit volunteers to track *one* regression test each
every two weeks.  Put up step 1. step2... instructions and a signup
sheet.  I would be happy to do that as soon as my computer troubles are
resolved. Over years it could make a real difference.  Regards, daveA

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