What is missing for LyX 2.4?

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 12:09:05PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 08:37:47AM +0100, José Matos wrote:
> > Do to this I think that the best is to proceed with 2.4 release.
> 
> Ha! Now I know that 3 years of delay is making even Jose nervous :))

I thought he was going to use the amount of time past as an argument to proceed to a 3.0 release :)

> > What are the major roadblocks for 2.4? What needs to be done?
> > I remember that at some point Scott volunteered to drive the release
> > process.
> 
> From management point of view, largely depends on Americans now.

This sounds scary.

> Riki was afraid to get stuck due to new duties at his workplace
> and as you correctly noted Scott offered that he might have some
> capacity from Feb.
> So the first thing is likely to get their feedback what they 
> can/want/plan to do / or assume the command into your hands...

I'm open to managing the release, or not managing it. And by "managing it", I really mean "asking other people to do the work" :)

Whatever Riki prefers is fine with me.

> Technically, what we need is to finish
> 1) sort out remaining bugs with 2.4 target in trac
> 2) review/ sort out TODOs in wiki https://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/LyX24Road
> 2) annouce string freeze to and ask translators to do their job
> 
> > I am available to give one or both hands to the release proceed.
> 
> Triaging remaining bugs is easiest way how to move forward before
> we reach some conclusion how to move forward from managerial
> point of view and needs to be done anyway...

Also going through tickets with 'patch' keyword. I think there are some patches that should go in and just need some feedback.

Scott
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