Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

I don't like to maintain a "known problems" page either, and I agree
that it is better to provide patch releases more often. On the other
hand, making a new release always involves a certain amount of
administrative overhead. In my case, while some of the process is
automated, there remain a few things I have to do manually: (1)
increasing the release number in the configuration, (2) adding release
notes, (3) adding the new version to the Installation page of the docs,
(4) recording this as a patch, (5) tagging the repo, (6) run the build
and tests to make sure if haven't forgot anything, (7) running the
automation that publishes the new release, (8) send an announcement
email to tech-talk.

I guess creating a new release of EPICS base involves much more work.

Adding an item to the "known problems" page and publishing the docs is a
lot more light-weight and requires less care.

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Complexity comes for free, Simplicity you have to work for.