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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Frank,

On 4/21/19 6:33 PM, Frank Severinsen wrote:
> a non-dev-lead +1 ;)

LOL!

> 
> As a small side note there is a discussion on the forum to get a V5.1
> branch "nightly" going.
> https://forum.kicad.info/t/does-it-make-sense-to-have-development-snapshots-for-the-v5-1-branch-going-forward/15723/37
> This would hopefully help avoiding bugfix enduced bugs making it to stable.
> I can imagine alot of people (including myself) who wants to help
> testing, but can't use nightlies due to the file fomat changes.

I think this is a great idea.  This would give us more testing of the
current stable release branch between releases.  It most likely would
have prevented the current situation.

Cheers,

Wayne

> 
> 
> 
> Den 21. april 2019 kl. 23.18.53 +02.00, skrev Wayne Stambaugh
> <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> It's looks like 5.1.1 has a serious issue which was fixed and will be
>> released in 5.1.2. Since folks have already started downloading 5.1.1,
>> I don't think changing the 5.1.1 tag is a good idea. How much trouble
>> would it be to spin 5.1.2 and skip formally releasing 5.1.1? I'm fine
>> if we use the 5.1.1 libraries, documentation, and translations as
>> nothing has change since 5.1.1 that would effect anything. I figure
>> this will give Adam some more time to get the macos release out. I
>> apologize in advance for dropping the ball on this.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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