Re: status of release (was: status of mutopia project)

[bruys .]

Hello,
I'm curious (and I'm using version 2.13), and I wondered if
\partcombine is supposed to work with more than two parts. The
documentation refers to combining "several" parts, but only shows
examples with two parts. I was unsuccessful trying to use more than
two parts (in my pathetic attempts to resolve the problem in my
previous post).
Thanks to all you people working on bug fixes - Lilypond is an
impressive achievement.
Regards,
bruys
P.S. As an aside, the Scheme function context-spec-music is referred
to in the snippets, without giving any details of what it does
exactly. I expected I would be able to find information in the
internals manual, but it doesn't appear to be mentioned.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:02:01PM +0000, Keith OHara wrote:
>> A recent stable LilyPond version would also help.  I converted the scores I
>> was working on from 2.12 to 2.13, to avoid difficulties with \partcombine,
>> but then 2.13 kept changing so I've abandoned the 2.13 versions and now have
>> pretty much quit using LilyPond.
>
> Ouch.  When a developer as skilled and active as you says this, it
> really emphasizes the magnitude of the problem.
>
> Looking over the past few weeks, I don't think the problem is the
> programmers.  They've been fixing bugs quickly; a few times they
> added regressions, but those are also fixed without a long delay.
>
> I think the biggest problem at the moment is communication between
> users and programmers.
> - some users are not following the guidelines:
>    http://lilypond.org/bug-reports
>  Bug reports should go to bug-lilypond, not the users list!  If
>  you think it's of general interest, then CC it to both lists.
>
> - the Bug Squad is still losing some issues.  This is extremely
>  unfortunate, and it will hopefully improve over the next few
>  weeks.
>  However, this is something that users can help with:
>  if you have not heard back from a Bug Squad member within
>    ** 48 hours **
>  then please assume that your bug report has been
>    ** LOST **
>  and send the email again.
>
>  It gives me no pleasure to make this announcement, and I really
>  hope that things will improve.  But for the forseeable future,
>  please follow that policy.
>
> - users could help each other supply good bug reports.  If a
>  bug report has been rejected because it does not have a
>  Tiny example:
>    http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html
>  then an experienced user could spend a few minutes creating
>  such an example.  This would be very appreciated by
>  everybody involved, especially if the initial bug reporter
>  is a bit uncertain about lilypond, has some difficulty with
>  English, etc.
>
>  It would be nice if the Bug Squad had sufficient resources
>  to do this as well, but that unfortunately is not the case.
>
>
> Honestly, if we keep on going at the current rate, then I don't
> think we can get 2.14 out before June.  But if a few users helped
> out the bug process by actively creating Tiny examples, and
> resending bug reports to bug-lilypond when they get lost, then I
> really think that we can get 2.14 out in May.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
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