Re: [Kicad-developers] Version naming scheme

2018-02-19 Thread Jeff Young
That Wikipedia page is defining the waterfall methodology life cycle. KiCad is somewhere in between waterfall and agile methodology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_process Cheers, Jeff. > On 19 Feb 2018, at 21:00,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Version naming scheme

2018-02-19 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Thanks, that's great. I just had the impression that there would be more changes after an RC release. In that case "beta" would have been more realistic and the first RC could have been released a bit later. Another thing, which also doesn't have to affect in any way but which I anticipate, is tha

Re: [Kicad-developers] Version naming scheme

2018-02-19 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I think we are using rc in the correct context here. Our alpha and beta testing is completely open and continuous thanks to our nightly builds. We are in feature freeze so no new feature code is being added to KiCad. We are in the process of cleaning up a final few bugs before rc1. If no bugs we