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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/4/2018 7:00 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 04.08.2018 11:53, Jeff Young wrote:
> 
>> I thought Alexis’s strategy for the View Footprints in Symbol Chooser experimental feature worked well.  
> 
> That would mean:
> 
>  - new features get an option
>  - the option defaults to ON during development
>  - options that should not be released are adjusted to OFF before RC
>  - ideally, users are told about the change
>  - autobuilders don't set any feature options and just go with defaults
> 
> Can we get that as official policy?
> 
>    Simon

Please keep in mind that one of the goals is to keep the development
branch of kicad as usable as possible.  That is the criteria for turning
on/off experimental features.  If we don't keep the nightly builds
usable, users will not run them which is a major setback for testing.

Cheers,

Wayne