Re: release?

On 6 December 2013 11:36, Jose Da Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> On December 5, 2013 08:13:34 AM Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> Sorry, to clarify:
>>
>> I am (one of) the Fedora fontforge package maintainers. I've had a
>> request to update it, but I'm not happy just blindly picking some git
>> release to push to all our users. :)
>
> I agree you'll want to avoid picking a random release at the moment.
>
> I'm not satisfied with our current make system, and have pushed off doing
> anything about it since it got a major overhaul back in 2012, and as you
> might see in the list of issues, it could use some edits.
>
> as a compromise between what you are looking for and what we're trying for
> We can try for Jan 1st - at minimum, call it git tag marker 2.0.20140101
>
>> So, a real source release (where things had been stablized for that
>> release) would be excellent. Barring that, I guess some known more
>> stable git hash would be worth trying?
>
> Seeing such a large number of issues that have yet to be solved, I'm
> doubtful there is going to be stable release soon, but as you've mentioned,
> and others in the past have mentioned as well, FontForge hasn't put out a
> version that can be considered an update - yet.

Actually, since there has been so much stability work since
2012-07-31, I do think picking any random git release at the moment
would be okay.

However, I expect a couple of major features to land this month, so I
agree, shooting for 14-01-01 makes sense.

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