Mail Archives: geda-user/2011/12/17/11:38:19
>... solid enough ... take take those that should be in this bug release
That is (necessarily) subjective. Personally, I have recently seen 2
(for me) show stoppers for pcb (I cannot judge gschem):
- the misplaced plated-drill layer (if I understand right: fix or
workaround available for a stable release)
- the "tests-fail bugs" (probably only on i3(5)86 platforms (#883768 -
fix committed, #860037, very visible since it throws test failures, but
no important consequences - I do not know the status)
As long as these bugs are around, I would think that the "naive" user
who gets pcb as a stable item of "his distro" is better off with the
older releases - hence, I would not publish a new rpm to become
available with Mageia 2 (official release forseen for the month of mai).
I have not been sufficiently involved to judge whether other bugs should
be added to this show-stopper category.
Could this be a reasonable approach: along the feedback to your
question, and with your insight, you create a candidate for a "stable
release" that can be suggested for testing - and that you explicitely
signal as such - (for test by involved users, distro maintainers; taking
my example, not exhaustive tests: I, for instance, could not test any
x86 packages, and would try to check with 1 or 2 layouts I recently did
- mutch more representative if there would be a variety of test
environments). With the "next mai" deadline of the oncoming Ubuntu and
Mageia releases, there should be no serious timing problems.
Juergen
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