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Evan Foss  wrote:

> To me having 2 releases (one stable & one unstable) a year is ideal.

What is the point of an unstable release?
Sounds like a contradiction to me.


> Too many makes me worry that bugs will creep in 

Why would bugs creep faster if releases come in shorter intervals?


> and break my actually work in some way.

For the record: I habitually use monthly compiled binaries from 
git/head pretty much since geda switched to git (2008?). There have 
been incidents when the build failed for some reason. But I never had 
them break my actual work. 


> I think externally it looks better to
> have a steady predictable release cycle than a fast one.

There are probably more serious issues to the looks of gEDA...

---<)kaimartin(>---