I would like to highlight this bug:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1615
After releasing 2.14.0 and 2.15.0, I deleted my GUB download/
directory -- I thought it would be good to test that all the
automatic download links were still valid, the whole system would
work from scratch, etc.
My attempt to build lilypond failed. I have tried it half a dozen
times, letting it idle for 5-10 minutes before cancelling the
attempt and starting it again. Every attempt fails.
As per comment #1:
mkdir new-lilypond-dir
cd new-lilypond-dir
git init
git config core.bare false
git remote add -t master origin git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
git fetch --depth 1
fails every time. Until this is fixed,
*** I CANNOT MAKE ANY MORE LILYPOND RELEASES. ***
Past discussion suggests that this is a network-specific bug or
something, which absolutely sucks for debugging. Unfortunately my
desktop is only accessible through 2 (yes, literally two!)
intermediate ssh servers. But I am hoping that somebody out there
with a server can reproduce this problem, and then we can hand out
ssh accounts to knowledgeable git people who can look at this.
Cheers,
- Graham