On 10/13/2015 3:49 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: > Hi folks, > > I ran into a user today who was calling RC1 the new stable and was glad > it had "finally come out". I was a little panicked!
That's kind of scarey. Do people not understand what RC means? Unfortunately, I'm not sure there is much we can do about this. > > I know there are issues in the Mac package and IIRC issues in the > Windows package for RC1, so I asked him why he thought that, and he > pointed to the website. > > While http://kicad-pcb.org/download/ is pretty clear that there is a > release candidate out for the stable line, many of the OS specific > download pages are not clear at all (IMHO), > like http://kicad-pcb.org/download/ubuntu/, and definitely make it sound > like the "stable release" is out. This should read "stable release candidate 1" is out. When rcX is dropped from the version number, then it is officially a stable release. > > I started preparing a pull request to try to make it clearer, and > realized that someone made that change on purpose, so there are > obviously different opinions here. There are no opinions here. The last time I checked, I was the project lead developer and I'm pretty sure I have not released 4.0.0 yet. In fact there will be an rc2 as soon as another P&S router segfault bug has been resolved. Please folks, lets not give users the impression 4.0.0-rc1 is a stable release. It is not. We've already fixes several segfault bugs in rc1 which will be part of the rc2 release. Claiming that rc1 is a stable release will only lead to user frustration when these segfault bugs occur. > > Thoughts? > > Adam Wolf > Cofounder and Engineer > W&L > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
