X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-MailCleaner-SPF: none MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Message-id: <502A7291.90206@unige.ch> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:45:21 +0200 From: Juergen Harms User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.6esrpre) Gecko/20120717 Thunderbird/10.0.6 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: [geda-user] Version planning Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com The Mageia Linux distribution will start the testing period for its next release (Mageia 3) in September. According to Mageia policy, new versions of upstream software are only allowed to be introduced with a new Mageia release. Starting with january 2013, there will be an about 10-months period during which new upstream versions cannot be considered. The Mageia distro includes packages with pcb, geda-gaf and gerbv. As the maintainer of these packages, I therefore have a window between Sept. 3 and late December to introduce and test new up-to-date versions of these packages (the currently installed versions are geda-gaf-1.7.2, pcb-20100929 and gerbv-2.6.0). My question is: most of this software will, by the end of the year, be at least 1 year old - are there plans to release new versions (tarballs) of pcb, geda-gaf and gerbv which I should consider? pcb is a somewhat particular case: 20110918 had been available when Mageia 2 had been released, but still had some problems which in the meantime have been fixed, I just verified that with these fixes 20110918 is OK on Mageia 2 - but will also be 1 year old soon. Regards, Juergen Harms