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[Miguel Ángel Ajo <majopela@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lol :)

Miguel Ángel Ajo


On Tuesday, 24 de February de 2015 at 17:28, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:

> Damn! Too late for 4.0.0. Better one up Linus by using 5.0.0. :)
>  
> On 2/24/2015 11:30 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > Hi Wayne,
> >  
> > Any chance you can make a call on 3.0.0 vs 4.0.0?
> >  
> > (Torvalds just took Linux to 4.0 this week :))
> >  
> > Adam Wolf
> >  
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx (mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx)
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >  
> > Here is the stable release policy:
> >  
> > http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-doxygen/ws/Documentation/doxygen/html/md_Documentation_development_stable-release-policy.html
> >  
> > I still need to add the numbering system to this.
> >  
> > On 2/24/2015 11:00 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I have started and deleted this email multiple times. I really don't
> > > enjoy discussions like this, but sometimes they're necessary.
> > >
> > > I have ran into quite a few misconceptions recently from non-devs about
> > > what the upcoming release is going to be. The issues I am seeing seem
> > > to hinge around the word "stable".
> > >
> > > As far as I know, every single source commit we make, we intend to be
> > > stable and usable, and we don't really commit half-features very often
> > > (if ever), and I have been seeing users get very confused about that
> > > based on the word "stable" for the upcoming release.
> >  
> > This will always be a goal for the product branch as long as I am
> > project leader. Keeping the development branch usable is important.
> >  
> > >
> > > As far as I know, there are going to be two things that make the
> > > upcoming release "special":
> > >
> > > 1) a feature freeze beforehand so we can run manual tests, make sure our
> > > features work well, and hopefully fix any packaging issues on the main
> > > targets without any churn of new features
> > >
> > > 2) file format incompatibilities
> >  
> > 3) A bunch of new features (gal, pns router, 64 layers, etc.) since the
> > last "stable" release.
> >  
> > >
> > > What about instead of calling it "stable", we called it by a version
> > > number? Kicad 2.0? I think more users would understand what we're doing.
> >  
> > We discussed using a triplett. Most likely the upcoming release will be
> > 3.0.0 or 4.0.0. Either is fine by me. There will never be a 3.1.X or
> > 3.2.X because features will *not* be back ported under the current
> > policy. Only critical errors (read crash, data loss, memory leaks, etc)
> > will be fixed in the stable release branch so there will only be 3.0.1,
> > 3.0.2, etc, versions. There will be no attempt to maintain
> > compatibility with the development branch file formats. Either you
> > bleed on the edge and help with testing or you live with the features in
> > the current stable release. I am not reopening this subject for
> > discussion for obvious reasons. We've beat this horse to death and
> > given our resource limitations, this is the best compromise.
> >  
> > >
> > > This email is primarily directed at Wayne, but I like to keep things in
> > > the open if possible.
> > >
> > > Adam Wolf
> > > Cofounder and Engineer
> > > Wayne and Layne
> > >
> > >
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