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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 08:30:33AM -0400, Steven A. Falco wrote:
> On 5/2/22 07:37 AM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> > Hi devs,
> > I need a clarification.
> > What is the master branch of the docs git repo for?
> > 
> > If the master branch is for the current KiCad stable implementation, then
> > the KiCad help hotkey should point to it, which it's not how it's
> > implemented now. I am asking this because I would like to see the
> > improvement of the doc translations connected to all the stable versions
> > in use now (the 6.* branch) or I would probably have to move my
> > translation efforts on a 6.* branch that, to my knowledge, it does not
> > even exist.
> > 
> > any feedback is welcome!
> 
> My opinion is that the branch names should be synchronized across all
> of the KiCad repositories.  The Fedora build scripts expect that, and I
> think it is less confusing and less error-prone overall if the branch
> names match.

Agree

> So, "master" should be the 7.99 development branch, and "6.0" should 
                             ^^^^
                             no

> be the current production branch.  But the lead devs will have the final decision.

I do not know if KiCad uses semantic versioning (https://semver.org/) but
what I do know is that they do not use even numbers for stable branches
so 5.*.* was a stable branch as will be the future 7.*.* ...

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Saluton,
Marco Ciampa