[tex-live] TL13 status

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 22:18:12 CEST 2013


2013/4/9 Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
>
>
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>>>
>>> What is necessary is to encourage developers to focus
>>> solely on bug-fixes during the pre-DVD freeze, and to resume
>>> development work only once that freeze is over.
>>
>> Do you mean bug-fixing mode for 6 months, twice per year? ;)
>
> If it takes six months to fix all the bugs, then yes; but
> my assumption was that the pre-DVD freeze would start (say)
> one month before intended production, and that month would
> be used for bug fixing.  If less time is needed, great; and
> if more time is needed, so be it :  better a bug-free DVD
> than a buggy one followed by a need for an immediate network
> update, particularly for those with poor or no network connectivity.
>
It takes ages to fix _all_ bugs. I spotted a bug in my zwpagelayout
after 5 years. The bug was there from the

> ** Phil.



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