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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

I thought Alexis’s strategy for the View Footprints in Symbol Chooser experimental feature worked well.  

IIRC, she added a preference just before RC1 and changed the default from “on” to “off”.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 3 Aug 2018, at 22:22, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 03.08.2018 06:06, Adam Wolf wrote:
> 
>> It works fine with macOS, and I've already enabled it for nightlies.
> 
> It has also been active for Windows nightlies for quite some time, so
> people were confused when it was suddenly off in the release version.
> 
> So in addition to a decision on the action menu, we need a general
> strategy for experimental features around release time.
> 
> Should we:
> 
> - always build nightlies with default settings (experimental features
> get less testing)
> - always build nightlies with all features (people will miss features
> from the release)
> - switch over from "all features" to "defaults" with the first release
> candidate
> - build nightlies with all features, but release candidates with default
> - ???
> 
>   Simon
> 
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