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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 15/04/2014 16:23, Dick Hollenbeck a écrit :
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.)
> 
> 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).

Happy birthday, Dick.

We say thank you for all your work, not only on Kicad code, but also for
all administrative tasks you made about Kicad (and I know there are a
lot...).


And these 20,000 lines of changes which were an impressive work (I am
thinking I need some time to learn and understand all changes).
In fact it created very few issues, and all are minor issues.

So, thanks.

-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS