Creating separate branches with large change sets is risky. I've stated many times before that my time is limited and reviewing a 10K+ lines of code merge request is likely going to sit in the queue for a long time until I or someone who's coding ability I trust can find time to review the changes. I will not blindly commit anything to the product branch. I have repeatedly asked that devs do incremental changes so I can easily review them. Incremental changes give me a chance to follow you thought process on code design and stop you before you code yourself into a hole. Is it a PITA? Yes. Until I start getting paid full time to work on KiCad, that is how I plan on doing things. It can be done. After the stable release, I will start incrementally committing my Eeschema base code refactor. If you follow it, you should be able to tell where it's headed after the first few commits. I could do it in one big merge but I wont. I know from experience that big changes can and do leave the code in an unusable state. One of the goals of the project is to keep the development branch as bug free as possible. No one will want to test the product branch if it's not reasonably stable and testing is very important. The other primary goal is code quality. The kicad code base is too large to add poorly designed code.
On 11/4/2015 6:47 PM, Mark Roszko wrote: > Actually right now, officially we are doing current code maintenance > only as we are trying to do a "stable" release. Its also why things > have quieted down as people have went to squirrel away on personal > branches as no new features are accepted right now. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
