Provide an alpha build of LyX 2.4 to ease testing?

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 10/21/20 12:33 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 05/10/2020 à 05:29, Thibaut Cuvelier a écrit :
>> Dear list,
>>
>> While working on the DocBook support, there was the idea to have an 
>> alpha build (or any other kind of prerelease) of LyX 2.4, at least 
>> for Linux (Windows would be nice to have too), to help people test 
>> the new DocBook support.
>>
>> As this part of the code has matured a lot since this discussion, I 
>> suppose it is now time to make such a release, if Jean-Marc has time 
>> to do it.
>
> Unfortunately the alpha has not happened yet, and I do not see it 
> happening next week either.
>
> If someone can volunteer to do it, be my guest :) I will do my best in 
> November.
>
> Sorry for the delays, these times are a bit difficult to deal with.

To be sure.

Even if it's not officially an alpha (for the reasons Kornel mentioned), 
it might be worth trying to do some kind of 'testing' release. I can 
probably get to that this week or weekend.

I had meant to do that more frequently, anyway, but then ...

Riki