[chirp_devel] Baofeng UV-5R Variants and CHIRP v0.4.1

[Dan Smith]

> I keep telling everyone to not use the CHIRP stable version for all 
> Baofeng/Pofung radios (except for the UV-B5/UV-B6) but most don't
> find out until it is too late. And there are some that don't want to
> run anything but a stable release.
> 
> The October date on the stable build is misleading. It contains 
> nothing since the April v0.4.0 build except the backported patch
> that apparently isn't dong the job.
> 
> I'm thinking that there either needs to be more patches backported
> to the stable build (not recommended by me) or roll out a v0.4.2 that
> is current with the latest daily build.

That would technically be 0.5.0 based on our previous release criteria.

> If not either of these two things, then maybe a strong warning on the
> downloads page not to use the v0.4.1 stable build for Baofeng/Pofung
> radios.
> 
> Any other ideas?

Yeah, how about we drop the "stable" releases entirely and start having
people just download the latest *build*? Given that we run tests on
every build, don't publish if they fail, and generally don't develop in
a break-n-fix mode, there's really zero reason (AFAICT) to ever run the
stable builds.

I would propose that we just adjust the download page to describe how
and when builds are generated, and then link to the latest build for the
actual download links. This should result in more people running more
current stuff in general.

Thoughts?

--Dan

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