Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2366 in lilypond: THANKS needs updating or deleting

[lilypond]

Comment #15 on issue 2366 by address@hidden: THANKS needs updating or deleting
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2366

I have quite mixed feelings about that one with regard to stable/2.16.   
Since the choice taken has been to remove THANKS, the scope of distributed  
files is affected.  This is partly the domain of issue 2719, but the most  
important consideration is that we just have no testing exposure for this  
kind of change before 2.16.0.  I lean towards hand-editing THANKS (with a  
list for 2.16 derived from git shortlog) for 2.16.0, keeping the file  
structure of the release branch and its distribution intact, and reserving  
the merge of this patch for 2.16.1, when exposure of the release of 2.17.0  
has made reasonably sure that this causes no unexpected interferences with  
issue 2719 and at least the unstable release procedure.

Yes, awkward, and certainly to a good degree my fault for not forming and  
presenting a 2.16 release roadmap with sufficient buffer to have people  
prepare release-relevant material in a time frame permitting exposure in a  
few unstable releases prior to deciding to keep them in stable.  But then  
our previous policies were not that much better for predicting the release  
roadmap.