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[Blair Bonnett <blair.bonnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 February 2014 10:31, Jake <jake@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Brian Sidebotham wrote:
>
>  On 5 February 2014 10:11, Jake <jake@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I just want to say the same thing that a lot of other people have been
>>> saying for a long time.  Bazaar is holding kicad back.  I am yet another
>>> developer who would be contributing to improving the project if it
>>> weren't
>>> kept in an arcane and frustrating VCS.
>>>
>>> So, if you're putting letters like this in a pile somewhere, just go
>>> ahead
>>> and put this one in the pile.
>>>
>>> I really would love it if kicad went to git, not just to make it easy
>>> for me
>>> to contribute, but for lots and lots of people who would jump in and
>>> help.
>>>
>>> thank you for everything you've done and all that you will do
>>> -jake
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Jake,
>>
>> Did you read the whole of this subject? Go ahead and use Git if you
>> want, no-one is going to stop you. Links have been provided on
>> information to allow you to develop using Git.
>>
>> We look forward to your contributions.
>>
>> Best Regards, Brian.
>>
>>
> Hi Brian,
>
> I assume you're referring to git-bzr-ng which I was told about on irc.
> Supposedly this can allow a git user to interact with the bazaar system
> transparently.  That would be great, except i can't get it to work.

<snip>

thank you
> -jake


Hi Jake,

I think Brian was referring to the GitHub mirror workflow that has been
discussed in this thread in the last 24 hours. The following messages are
the key ones in this workflow discussion:

1: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12148.html
2: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12159.html
3: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12160.html
4: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12161.html

In fact, Henner has already submitted two patches to this mailing list
based on this workflow, so it seems to be quite usable in practice.

I guess we could document this workflow on the KiCad website, say under the
KiCad development page (
http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/KiCad+Development ). Maybe once the
core developers have given their blessing that it works from their side as
well?

Regards,
Blair