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[John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Here's a patch for the advanced config dev-docs. Basically, it says
"here be dragons, use at your peril". I realise after re-reading the
docs I wrote before, that this is not clear.

Sending to the list as I don't want to introduce "policy" in this way
without discussion.

If anyone wishes to, feel free to modify as needed!

Cheers,

John

From 5668baa611bf952e402e5f104e9ba0b18aac84cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 21:54:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Docs: Advanced config is explicity experimental

Any advanced config option is not to be considered production-ready,
so make this clear in the dev-docs.
---
 Documentation/development/testing.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/development/testing.md b/Documentation/development/testing.md
index 4c4cf29e6..f58844b1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/development/testing.md
+++ b/Documentation/development/testing.md
@@ -294,6 +294,11 @@ To set these options, you can create the file `kicad_advanced` and set the keys
 as desired (the [advanced config documentation][] for a current list. You should
 never need to set these keys for normal usage - if you do, that's a bug.
 
+Any features enabled though the advanced configuration system are
+considered experimental and therefore unsuitable for production use. These
+features are explicitly not supported or considered fully tested.
+Issues are still welcome for defects discovered.
+
 
 [CTest]: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/CTest.html
 [Boost Unit Test framework]: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_68_0/libs/test/doc/html/index.html
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