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["Remy" <kicadder@...>]

--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jonas Diemer <diemer@...> wrote:
>
> Am Samstag, 30. August 2008 11:28:24 schrieb Richard A Burton:
> > There is a marker. The marker is that it gets released. Nightly builds
> > may be made available, but only the official releases go on the
> > official site. If it's there (and isn't marked as a release candidate
> > of course) then it's a proper release and considered good for
> > production use.
> 
> This scheme is rather different from how most other (open source)
software is 
> released (and thus what new users are familiar with): Usually,
nightly builds 
> are marked by a date, while stable versions have a number...
> 
> > > adding
> > > a "traditional" version number to the release date whenever such a
> > > release is
> > > considered stable, i.e.
> >
> > In my experience, working at a major software company, marketing
> > drives the version numbers. Yes, there are new feature in each (also
> > driven by marketing of course), but making it a major release or a dot
> > release, or even just a service release depends on what you are trying
> > to achieve with the release, how you license upgrades, how you want it
> > to fit into a larger portfolio. None of this matters for Kicad. I
> > can't see what you are trying to achieve by changing the numbering
> > scheme. Aside from making it clear that's it's a production ready
> > release (point already covered above), what else does it provide?
> 
> What I am trying to fix here is how new KiCad users get confused by
the many 
> versions out there. At least I got confused (several times) earlier,
and I am 
> sure others too.
> 
> The multiple download sites probably is the worst part of it, but
not having a 
> clear flag that denotes a stable release from a nightly build is
also bad.
> 
> - Jonas
>

Hi,
For example, I don't know if the 2008 07 15 version was considered as
a stable version at that date! And I am not a new user...
And, yes, new (and older) users are confused with this system, and
that harms Kicad.

Remy

Some examples :
http://www.geda.seul.org/news/index.html
http://www.freepcb.com/
http://qucs.sourceforge.net/