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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Happy birthday Dick. It is always nice to get a status update once in a while.

2014-04-15 16:23 GMT+02:00 Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>> Sorry for the inconvenience.
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>> Dick
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> I want to say thanks to everyone for their patience on the Kiway work.  I know its been
> somewhat disruptive.  To be candid, its a miracle that 20,000 lines of changes did not
> break more than it did.  Again, I appreciate those that are willing to be testers, and
> encourage anyone else to use the "pre-kiway" tagged version if they want stability.
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> Today is my 58th birthday, and it has become very clear to me recently that I am really
> tired of looking at poorly written KiCad source code.  I am not long for this project.
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> To get through milestones B) and C) will mean even more changes.  So if you are a
> developer and think you understand how something used to work, maybe even because you
> wrote it for the old architecture, and it does not meet the needs of the new architecture,
> then I doubly thank you for your patience as it morphs into something that meets the needs
> of the new architecture, morphing possibly more than once along the way.
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> The difficult part for me typically is understanding what the intentions were of the old
> code, because the code does not clearly indicate intentions in the way it should.  To be
> honest, I find a lot of it repulsive.  (Some of that is my age, and the natural tendency
> of folks to get more intolerant as they age.)
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> This is a tenuous situation, so I ask for your understanding, and patience, and give
> thanks in advance for such as we approach milestones B) and C).
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