There are a few outstanding crash bugs that need to be fixed before we can consider branching the stable 5 release. Here is the list of unresolved crash bugs that effect the development branch:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1562788 https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1732274 https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1738872 https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1738999 https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1739614 https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1740253 As soon as we get these fix and assuming no new crash bugs are reported, I'm fine with branching and tagging an rc1 candidate. I also have be mulling over the way we create our version string and think we should adopt something similar to what Joe Chen mentioned in a previous version string discussion[1]. I propose that we use '`git describe --dirty` and drop the date and branch name from the version string. Since `git describe --dirty` results in the correct version string if the user clones a repo from a release tag, I propose that we always use the git version string whenever git is available and only fallback to the contents of KiCadVersion.cmake when git isn't available. This will require us to keep the git tags and the contents of KiCadVersion.cmake synced. If we do a good job of keeping them synced, we should have a reasonable idea of what branch was used even when git is not available. If no one objects to this, I will make the changes. Cheers, Wayne [1]: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg26846.html _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
