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Re: RC1 terminology on the website

 

Nah, no different opinions, we just weren't very clear on how we
applied the terminology which we should fix.

Probably doesn't help overlooking those who don't know what "RC" means in
the technical fields hehe.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Adam Wolf
<adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I ran into a user today who was calling RC1 the new stable and was glad it
> had "finally come out".   I was a little panicked!
>
> I know there are issues in the Mac package and IIRC issues in the Windows
> package for RC1, so I asked him why he thought that, and he pointed to the
> website.
>
>  While http://kicad-pcb.org/download/ is pretty clear that there is a
> release candidate out for the stable line, many of the OS specific download
> pages are not clear at all (IMHO), like
> http://kicad-pcb.org/download/ubuntu/, and definitely make it sound like the
> "stable release" is out.
>
> I started preparing a pull request to try to make it clearer, and realized
> that someone made that change on purpose, so there are obviously different
> opinions here.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> W&L
>
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Mark


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