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[John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Orson. It's unfortunate for people to not be able to dump
new features onto master after such a long freeze. However, if 5.1 and
master/6-dev diverge, there will be a lot of pain in porting bugs,
especially if one branch has work that very is invasive and touches a
lot of code, and one does not.

Moreover, testing efforts will be split, with some people only on
5.1-dev and some only using master. This can easily allow bugs to slip
by into one branch or the other.

I think there should only be master, which is the 5.1-dev branch. When
that splits to become a release, 6.0-dev can start.

Big features that don't suit 5.1 will just have to wait for the start
of 6, being maintained in separate branches if necessary, either under
the KiCad aegis in the main repo, or less formally in any other Git
repo. A list of ongoing known dev branches somewhere would be helpful
(eeschema GAL and Cairo printing being two I can think would be useful
to document).

Of course, people with new features can always petition the project
lead for permission to put stuff into 5.1! Otherwise, focussing on 5.1
issues now will get both 5.1 done and out of the way sooner (important
to fix Python), and also get us to the state where 6.0-dev can receive
the full attention from devs, lead and interested users.

Cheers,

John


On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Maciej Sumiński
<maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wonder if there is a point in keeping 5.1 and master branches
> separated. In 5.1 there is a lot of new code that will need patches, and
> they need to be applied to both branches now. If we keep adding more
> features to the master branch, then at one point the branch may diverge
> significantly enough to make patch porting non trivial.
>
> What do you think about replacing the current master branch with 5.1?
> This way we can focus on the wxGTK3 problem, fix issues that we discover
> and once 5.1 is out - keep adding new features to 6.0-dev? For the time
> being new features might be developed in private branches.
>
> BTW. I really like 5.1 UI improvements, good job Jeff!
>
> Cheers,
> Orson
>
>
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