On 12/23/20 9:38 AM, Steven A. Falco wrote: > On 12/23/20 9:36 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> On 12/23/20 5:20 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: >>> 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. >>> >> >> This is why I asked if everyone is OK with my original time line. I >> don't want to speak on behalf of all of the other devs because I don't >> know what their schedules look like. We should not be tagging all the >> other repos until folks have had a chance to reply in case there is any >> outstanding issues. I'm perfectly fine with proceeding with my original >> time line. It sounds like we just had a few translations that needed >> merged so I fine waiting until that is complete before we start building >> packages. > > Everything was already tagged as of yesterday. I think it is already > too late to make any further changes to 5.1.9.
Well this is unfortunate. Next time we need to do a better job of allowing everyone to respond before we tag all of the other repos to make sure there are no outstanding issues. I think this is the first time this has happened so I'm not going to over react a propose new policies. Wayne > > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
