kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed. Also by making an release candidate might motivate packagers
to prepare packages for their system, and then we can catch some
potential problems, and possible get some input to address them for
the release.

2015-09-07 14:33 GMT+02:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I second this. Just make the branch! The bugs keep piling in anyway, and
> most of them are minor - barely reproducible. We're as ready as we'll ever
> be!
>
> On Sep 7, 2015 6:00 AM, "Brian Sidebotham" <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> My humble suggestion is to just create the RC1 branch now because I've
>> been through all of those bugs, and they're all either incomplete or
>> not repeatable for me. In which case we need more information in order
>> to be able to fix them.
>>
>> In order to get more information, it's better to have a larger
>> user-base. Plus, a user-base on a pre-built rc candidate. It's
>> possible for example that some people's systems are a bit screwy when
>> building and so we're really chasing phantoms that are down to their
>> specific build. With an RC we're at least debugging a single sane
>> thing.
>>
>> That's what an RC is for in my opinion - it has known issues, but we
>> need help moving forward. Plus, these issues will become insignificant
>> compared the waft of new bugs that are going to come out of the
>> woodwork when we make an RC build for mass people to test. I don't
>> think that work should be delayed for a few bugs that are almost
>> unrepeatable.
>>
>> I have a patch holding for adding the interactive routing options to
>> the draw toolbar. It makes no sense to me for those brilliant tools to
>> be available only in a menu option - they should be in the draw
>> toolbar and disabled when in legacy canvas mode so people know what
>> they're missing out on! ;)
>>
>> Sorry, I've only just managed to get some time together to be able to
>> work on KiCad again, so bad timing!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Brian.
>>
>> On 6 September 2015 at 21:11, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > This is a reminder to *all* developers, please do not send any patches
>> > or merge requests unless it is specifically to fix an existing bug
>> > report.  Also, please don't bother fixing the build scripts or any of
>> > the CMake dependency library build code as they will be removed during
>> > the next development cycle.  My preference is that we focus on the
>> > critical bug reports that are keeping me from creating an rc1 branch.
>> > They can be found here:
>> >
>> >
>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.importance%3Alist=CRITICAL&field.importance%3Alist=HIGH&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscriber=&field.structural_subscriber=&field.tag=&field.tags_combinator=ANY&field.has_cve.used=&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.affects_me.used=&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_branches.used=&field.has_branches=on&field.has_no_branches.used=&field.has_no_branches=on&field.has_blueprints.used=&field.has_blueprints=on&field.has_no_blueprints.used=&field.has_no_blueprints=on
>> >
>> > This list needs to get to zero before I'm willing to create any rc1
>> > branch.
>> >
>> > Thank you for your cooperation.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Wayne
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> > Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> > More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>