About 7.0.2 release

[Christoph Moench-Tegeder]

Hi,

could we get the pre-announcement for the minor releases back here
on the list? I liked that more than the "oops, new tag" workflow :)

Also, related: are there plans to release the pre-built docs tarball
for 7.0.2? We had that all the time through 7.0.1, but
kicad-doc-7.0.2.tar.gz is not in the expected location as of three
minutes ago. In fact, I was waiting for that tarball so I could
update the doc package along with kicad itself and the libraries,
but now the announcement on the blog was faster than the docs drop...
The links to the docs tarball have disapeared in
https://gitlab.com/kicad/services/kicad-website/-/commit/bf5021834bc35000b642267d34be1be2f5c1360c
Before that it was listed as "to be used by packagers". Should we
switch the build process? I haven't seen anmything about that.

Regards,
Christoph

--
Spare Space

[Wayne Stambaugh]

Hello Chistoph,

I apologize for not announcing the 7.0.2 release was pending a few weeks
ago like I normally do. It just fell through the cracks this time. I
will try to be more mindful in the future for making sure folks who are
not on the Zulip developer list are kept in the loop of new releases.

Cheers,

Wayne

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2023-04-17 15:57, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I apologize for not announcing the 7.0.2 release was pending a few weeks ago
> like I normally do.

I would like to try out v7. I'm particurly interested to see how the Space
Navigator can be used in the PCB viewer. The KiCad website indicates the
program will be available via a PPA. I've used the PPA commands listed on
the web page but no v7 packages are available. Is there a timeline for when
v7 will be packaged and available to download via the PPA as shown?

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[Mark Roszko]

Not sure why you are hijacking this thread.

But you must be on the supported list of ubuntu distros to get v7 (ubuntu 20 and newer) and only 64-bit x86 processors.
https://launchpad.net/~kicad/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-7.0-releases

Space Navigator/Space Mouse support does not exist on Linux and is only available on Windows and macOS.

[Salvador E. Tropea]

Hi Wayne!

On 17/4/23 16:57, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Hello Chistoph,
>
> I apologize for not announcing the 7.0.2 release was pending a few
> weeks ago like I normally do.  It just fell through the cracks this
> time.  I will try to be more mindful in the future for making sure
> folks who are not on the Zulip developer list are kept in the loop of
> new releases.

Yes, please.

BTW, any chance to have some "test" period before stable releases? I
mean something like: announce the next release 1 week before and do some
freeze avoiding to commit changes that can potentially break something.
Only verified fixes.

I didn't know about the release, and I was trying to make my plugin work
with the current master. When I went back to 7.0 branch I checked out
the commit before the 7.0.2 tag. I found 4 annoying bugs, all of them
are now in the release. Three of them are already fixed.

IMHO KiCad needs much more regression tests to allow developer to create
a release without a test period. From what I see most bugs are catched
by users, not regression tests. Also note that the `kicad-cli` and
Python API opens the oportunity to create simple and powerful tests.


Regards, Salvador