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From: Juergen Harms <Juergen DOT Harms AT unige DOT ch>
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 >... 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