On 8/4/2018 7:00 AM, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 04.08.2018 11:53, Jeff Young wrote: > >> I thought Alexis’s strategy for the View Footprints in Symbol Chooser >> experimental feature worked well. > > That would mean: > > - new features get an option > - the option defaults to ON during development > - options that should not be released are adjusted to OFF before RC > - ideally, users are told about the change > - autobuilders don't set any feature options and just go with defaults > > Can we get that as official policy? > > Simon
Please keep in mind that one of the goals is to keep the development branch of kicad as usable as possible. That is the criteria for turning on/off experimental features. If we don't keep the nightly builds usable, users will not run them which is a major setback for testing. Cheers, Wayne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
