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[Travis Ayres <trayres@xxxxxxxxx>]

This should be a wiki page, and the more time consuming steps should be a
wiki pave as well. How amazing (and helpful) would that be?
On Feb 4, 2014 3:57 AM, "Brian Sidebotham" <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I suspect it's all just a documentation issue too as someone else
> suggested because it's so easy to branch the code and generate a patch
> using Bazaar.
>
> Perhaps the best place for anyone who has decided Bazaar is dead (it
> works for me by the way!) and therefore cannot contribute (and
> particularly git fans) is to look at the Inkscape wiki:
> http://www.inkscape.org/en/develop/getting-started/
>
> Or, you can just...
>
> bzr checkout lp:kicad
> bzr branch ./kicad ./kicad-feature
>
> ..hack, hack, hack kicad-feature, you can commit to ./kicad-feature as
> many times as you like and merge in the tip any time you want to keep
> conflicts to a minimum...
>
> cd kicad && bzr up && cd ..
> cd kicad-feature && bzr merge ../kicad
> bzr diff > my-feature.patch
>
> It's really that easy to start contributing (I've left out the build
> and debug steps which are several orders of magnitude more time
> consuming). You don't need to fork, pull, push or anything like that.
>
> I agree, we should probably have a wiki page similar to Inkscape's,
> but Inkscape has many more contributors compared to KiCad. PCB design
> is less popular than vector graphics in general.
>
> Best Regards, Brian.
>
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