I second this. Just make the branch! The bugs keep piling in anyway, and most of them are minor - barely reproducible. We're as ready as we'll ever be! On Sep 7, 2015 6:00 AM, "Brian Sidebotham" <[email protected]> wrote:
> My humble suggestion is to just create the RC1 branch now because I've > been through all of those bugs, and they're all either incomplete or > not repeatable for me. In which case we need more information in order > to be able to fix them. > > In order to get more information, it's better to have a larger > user-base. Plus, a user-base on a pre-built rc candidate. It's > possible for example that some people's systems are a bit screwy when > building and so we're really chasing phantoms that are down to their > specific build. With an RC we're at least debugging a single sane > thing. > > That's what an RC is for in my opinion - it has known issues, but we > need help moving forward. Plus, these issues will become insignificant > compared the waft of new bugs that are going to come out of the > woodwork when we make an RC build for mass people to test. I don't > think that work should be delayed for a few bugs that are almost > unrepeatable. > > I have a patch holding for adding the interactive routing options to > the draw toolbar. It makes no sense to me for those brilliant tools to > be available only in a menu option - they should be in the draw > toolbar and disabled when in legacy canvas mode so people know what > they're missing out on! ;) > > Sorry, I've only just managed to get some time together to be able to > work on KiCad again, so bad timing! > > Best Regards, > > Brian. > > On 6 September 2015 at 21:11, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is a reminder to *all* developers, please do not send any patches > > or merge requests unless it is specifically to fix an existing bug > > report. Also, please don't bother fixing the build scripts or any of > > the CMake dependency library build code as they will be removed during > > the next development cycle. My preference is that we focus on the > > critical bug reports that are keeping me from creating an rc1 branch. > > They can be found here: > > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.importance%3Alist=CRITICAL&field.importance%3Alist=HIGH&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscriber=&field.structural_subscriber=&field.tag=&field.tags_combinator=ANY&field.has_cve.used=&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.affects_me.used=&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_branches.used=&field.has_branches=on&field.has_no_branches.used=&field.has_no_branches=on&field.has_blueprints.used=&field.has_blueprints=on&field.has_no_blueprints.used=&field.has_no_blueprints=on > > > > This list needs to get to zero before I'm willing to create any rc1 > branch. > > > > Thank you for your cooperation. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Wayne > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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