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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Wayne!  I prepared some changes for the website team to hopefully
make the download page wording clearer.

(By the way, the new website seems to be even more gorgeous than before...
amazing work folks!)

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 10/13/2015 3:49 PM, Adam Wolf 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!
>
> That's kind of scarey.  Do people not understand what RC means?
> Unfortunately, I'm not sure there is much we can do about this.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> This should read "stable release candidate 1" is out.  When rcX is
> dropped from the version number, then it is officially a stable release.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> There are no opinions here.  The last time I checked, I was the project
> lead developer and I'm pretty sure I have not released 4.0.0 yet.  In
> fact there will be an rc2 as soon as another P&S router segfault bug has
> been resolved.  Please folks, lets not give users the impression
> 4.0.0-rc1 is a stable release.  It is not.  We've already fixes several
> segfault bugs in rc1 which will be part of the rc2 release.  Claiming
> that rc1 is a stable release will only lead to user frustration when
> these segfault bugs occur.
>
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Adam Wolf
> > Cofounder and Engineer
> > W&L
> >
> >
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