Hi all, I feel kind of bad now, my "Christmas special" email was not supposed to be taken so seriously.
I don't think there is any huge rush, and if we need more time to prepare the release, using Wayne's original timeline or something in the middle (1-January release?) would also be fine, I think... Best, Jon On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 5:47 AM Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a distributed effort. We can't wait to announce it untill all habe > bumped the pkgver, this could mean that we have builds released months > before we even announced it and it will confuse users. Having "major" > platforms covered and then announce is a good comprimise. Two of those > don't are not released via a native package manager. > > ons. 23. dec. 2020 11.20 skrev Carsten Schoenert <c.schoen...@t-online.de > >: > >> Hell Nick, >> >> Am 23.12.20 um 10:07 schrieb Nick Østergaard: >> > Hi Carsten >> > >> > This is a balancing act. Quite some time ago we decided that we should >> > make the release _announcement_ (on the website) when we have build >> > available for some major platforms, these specifically being windows, >> > ubuntu ppa and macos, mostly because that gives us some good >> > "coverage" and we control those builds "ourselves". >> >> that's of course up to the KiCad team to do such decisions. But I see no >> reason why KiCad should be that exclusive. So far I've seen in the past >> all the big distributions and the maintainer of the packages for KiCad >> have acted quick as possible. But you need to give them some time. And >> again, we have x-mas, why rushing things more than needed? >> >> > I am not trying to exclude you as a kicad maintainer. >> >> But this is it it looks like. >> As at least one other contributor has stated, please give us the needed >> time. No planned release announcement was done again on any of the ML. :-( >> >> > By having the release announcement, it is easier to use that as a >> > reference when users are flagging packages in various distros. >> > Essentially we don't expect other distros to have builds ready by the >> > release announcement. >> Why not doing this? It has worked in the past years. It would look much >> better if things would be done more coordinated. >> >> -- >> Regards >> Carsten >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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