X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:22:27 -0800 From: Andrew Poelstra To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB sync request for the upcoming Ubuntu long term support release Message-ID: <20111218182226.GC30970@malakian.lan> References: <20111217165927 DOT GB30970 AT malakian DOT lan> <1324167490 DOT 23639 DOT 0 AT kwak> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1324167490.23639.0@kwak> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 01:18:07AM +0100, Kai-Martin wrote: > On 12/17/2011 05:59:27 PM, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > > >Let's not forget that pcb 20100929 is -far- from bug-free, and that's > >what we're stepping up from. > > +1 > IMHO, pcb and geda could benefit greatly from the motto "release early, > release often!". It is no fun to see students stumble on bugs and warts > that were rectified mor than a year ago. > Well, after this release, it will be a long time before the next one, since we are planning to Break Everything and fix the file format, internals, etc. We don't have the developer power to have a "release early, release often" attitude all the time. > > >> Could this be a reasonable approach: along the feedback to your > >> question, and with your insight, you create a candidate for a > >> "stable release" that can be suggested for testing - and that you > >> explicitely signal as such > > Last time I suggested something similar, it was greeeted with rejection. > Again, because we don't have the developer power. It is possible we will have release candidates for -this- release because it is so important. Having said that, any discussion of release scheduling is irrelevant until we go through the buglist and decide what needs to be fixed and what doesn't. -- Andrew Poelstra Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew "I don't understand. Are you saying dualism is always good, or always bad?"