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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I feel kind of bad now, my "Christmas special" email was not supposed to be
taken so seriously.

I don't think there is any huge rush, and if we need more time to prepare
the release, using Wayne's original timeline or something in the middle
(1-January release?) would also be fine, I think...

Best,
Jon

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 5:47 AM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is a distributed effort. We can't wait to announce it untill all habe
> bumped the pkgver, this could mean that we have builds released months
> before we even announced it and it will confuse users. Having "major"
> platforms covered and then announce is a good comprimise. Two of those
> don't are not released via a native package manager.
>
> ons. 23. dec. 2020 11.20 skrev Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >:
>
>> Hell Nick,
>>
>> Am 23.12.20 um 10:07 schrieb Nick Østergaard:
>> > Hi Carsten
>> >
>> > This is a balancing act. Quite some time ago we decided that we should
>> > make the release _announcement_ (on the website) when we have build
>> > available for some major platforms, these specifically being windows,
>> > ubuntu ppa and macos, mostly because that gives us some good
>> > "coverage" and we control those builds "ourselves".
>>
>> that's of course up to the KiCad team to do such decisions. But I see no
>> reason why KiCad should be that exclusive. So far I've seen in the past
>> all the big distributions and the maintainer of the packages for KiCad
>> have acted quick as possible. But you need to give them some time. And
>> again, we have x-mas, why rushing things more than needed?
>>
>> > I am not trying to exclude you as a kicad maintainer.
>>
>> But this is it it looks like.
>> As at least one other contributor has stated, please give us the needed
>> time. No planned release announcement was done again on any of the ML. :-(
>>
>> > By having the release announcement, it is easier to use that as a
>> > reference when users are flagging packages in various distros.
>> > Essentially we don't expect other distros to have builds ready by the
>> > release announcement.
>> Why not doing this? It has worked in the past years. It would look much
>> better if things would be done more coordinated.
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Carsten
>>
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