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Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

Stefan Salewski wrote:

>> Frequent releases are good for the project.
> 
> I think more important is, that the releases/snapshots are free from
> serious bugs.

The imperative "Release early, release often" is a key to successful open 
source projects. More details here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often

 
> Frequent releases, with minor improvements, replacing old bugs with new
> bugs, make users and maintainers of distributions tired or even angry.

geda/pcb is far from this. Instead, I find myself rediscovering bug that 
have long been squished with students who work with the latest official 
release. 

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