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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 4:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Project proposal
> 
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 02:47:02PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>  Since Javier sort of let the cat out of the bag, I thought now would be
>>  a good time as my first official announcement as project leader to talk
>>  about creating a stable release of KiCad.  As you may have read in
>>  Javier's post that this stable release would be a light weight release
>>  in that there would not be bug fix back ports. 
> 
> mmm this I do not understand. Several other projects I know of have some
> kind of backporting of bugs discovered during development in the dev
> branch, at least the trivial ones. Git cherry pick command comes handy in
> this respect... by the way, why not instead having two different DCSes
> converge all to the actively developed (git)?
> 


It's a matter of resources. If someone will volunteer to hand-pick and
backport bug fixes then we can have such a 'stable' release. Otherwise
we will have to use the lightweight scheme already described.

- Cirilo