PATCHES - Countdown to February 24

Here is the current countdown report.
The next countdown will begin on 2025-02-24
A list of all merge requests can be found here:
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests?sort=label_priority

      Push:
!2594 ci: Enable bytecode and add test job without - Jonas Hahnfeld
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2594


      Countdown:
!2605 NR: Improve documentation of `\balloonGrobText` and `\balloonText` 
- Werner Lemberg
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2605

!2603 Span_bar_engraver: respect alignAboveContext - Dan Eble
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2603

!2602 Close volta hooks at certain bar lines - Dan Eble
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2602

!2600 doc: Fixes for `make ISOLANG=xx check-xrefs` - Werner Lemberg
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2600

!2599 Add ly:number->duration - Dan Eble
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2599

!2595 doc:  `lys-to-tely` improvements - Werner Lemberg
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2595

!2565 Byte-compile SCM files by default - Werner Lemberg
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2565


      Review:
!2604 Emmentaler: Add slash glyph - Werner Lemberg
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2604

!2601 Fix ambitusAfter crash with midi output-def - Saul James Tobin
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2601

!2596 Draft: Let \compound-meter print denominators as notes - Dan Eble
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2596

!2568 \startOptionalMaterial and \stopOptionalMaterial - Dan Eble
     https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2568


      New:
No patches in New at this time.

      Waiting:
No patches in Waiting at this time.


Cheers,
Colin