Last 2.18 release preparations.

From: David Kastrup Subject: Last 2.18 release preparations. Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:34:21 +0100 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

We'll try running 2.18.0 out on December 28. There are several things that need doing till then: Documentation/included/authors.itexi needs to get updated. git shortlog -s origin/stable/2.16..origin/stable/2.18 should give the current list of committers (38 is more than I expected, actually), but one still needs to sort them in categories. Leaving off the "-s" option from the above command might be helpful for that. The announcement needs to get written (I'll try my hand at it). Our parallel compilation problem (issue 3674, <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3674>) will likely severely impact the acceptance of 2.18 into distributions. My guess is that we are talking about bad/incomplete dependencies in the fonts, leading to corrupted font files that on some platforms cause LilyPond to abort. If anybody would find a conceivable culprit, this would definitely make many of us happier. We have a few known problems that will only see a fix in 2.18.1 (like the speed regression under Windows) since the respective problem fixes are just too invasive to go out untested without appearing in a development release. I'll try drafting a list. There are also a few changes that can still be cherry-picked into the stable branch, but I'll go through them myself. I am aware that this is likely a somewhat busy time for some... It would still be great if we could manage this. -- David Kastrup

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