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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Release of LyX 1.6.2 was: Context menu of some collaps insets
From:       Uwe Stöhr <uwestoehr () web ! de>
Date:       2009-03-06 13:59:17
Message-ID: 49B12C35.8070804 () web ! de
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Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

 > There is one outstanding issue which should be fixed, since it potentially
 > results in really bad dataloss:
 > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5813
 >
 > Apart from that, we are ready.
 >
 > Unfortunately, I'm totally blocked by real work, so I cannot look into the
 > issue myself (I would have time to set up the release at the weekend,
 > though, if someone came up with a patch).

I don't agree with this decision. The mentioned bug is surely critical, but no reason to wait any 
longer with LyX 1.6.2. LyX 1.6.2 fixes so many crashes and I don't understand why people should 
suffer from them any longer while we have a ready release.
The mentioned open crash is a special one - only a few users use branches and child documents 
together, while the other crashes we fixed affect much more people.

So the decision to make is:
1. Should we wait until 1 missing crash is fixed that only affects a few users so that the majority 
of the users suffer from the other about 10 fixed crashes from LyX 1.6.1 for some weeks?
2. Release LyX 1.6.2 now and the fix for the single crash when it is ready?

I vote for option 2.

regards Uwe
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