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[Duane Johnson <duane.johnson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Right, sorry, I wasn't explicit. I agree that new icons should be held off
until they can accompany new features. It's a better user experience.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 7/11/2016 11:32 AM, Duane Johnson wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Fabrizio Tappero
> > <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Wayne,
> >     would it be possible to include the 4 new main kicad icons in this
> >     release? I will need two more days to finish them up and maybe few
> >     days to update the english documentation to sync the changes.
> >
> >     cheers
> >     Fabrizio
> >
> >
> >
> > FWIW, designers know that when you ship new features, you need to make a
> > visual difference for users to realize it's shiny and new. Accompanying
> > a new features release with new icons would make a nice splash :)
> >
> > Duane
>
> The KiCad project does not back port features to the stable release.  We
> don't have the manpower to do this.  Only bugs are fixed in the stable
> release branch.  All new features will are released in the next stable
> branch.
>
> Wayne
>