On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 11:24, Carsten Schoenert <c.schoen...@t-online.de> wrote: > > Hello Wayne, > > Am 14.05.20 um 18:43 schrieb Wayne Stambaugh: > > Carsten, > > > > What information do you need from KiCad. Does Debian (or any other > > disto) have recommendations for upstream projects to help packagers? > > Debian has some dedicated information for upstream projects and coders > of course. > > https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide > > But these are all plain technically points written down. You will not > find any issues for the main KiCad application based on the list from > the Debian wiki and that's good. > > > Packaging is import to the project so if we can package devs lives a bit > > easier, I'm willing to consider ways to do so. > > We are going in loops so I currently don't want to put more energy into > a for me pointless discussion. And it's also disappointing and not > encouraging if people saying they haven't read my complete message(s) ... > > The main point is that projects simply should provide as much > information and communication as possible about the new versions they > provide. Distributions need always to think about how intrusive > modifications are, that's mainly a simple risk analysis. > > What do you think if a contributor is providing a 1000 line patch for > KiCad and you have no further information than that pure diff? > That's mainly the situation for me regarding to symbols and footprints. > > The release of a new KiCad version can be improved in my eyes by doing a > better job of release managing. For example some parts do create release > candidates some don't. Makes it difficult for me to do packaging > preparations as the final version of the kicad package says then nothing > about the real combined l10n and documentation parts as I need to pick > up some random versions. Also not helpful if users bring up issues as > you need to figure out against what commits these are for real. >
There were probably no -rc tag for i18n and the doc, but I didn't see you pointing it out in time either. > -- > Regards > Carsten > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp