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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Derek,

Nice to hear from you.

Miguel maintains the website as far as I know.  He was on a vacation, but
once he gets back and into the swing of things, I'll be getting OS X
nightlies posted on the site.

Adam Wolf
Co-founder and Engineer
Wayne and Layne, LLC


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Derek Kozel <derek.kozel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Hello!
>
> First of all thank you to everyone who has contributed to getting KiCad to
> where it is now. I've made several boards with it and hope to make many
> more. I'm a recent EE/CS graduate with experience working on medium sized
> C++ projects, mostly in Linux.
>
> I'd like to give back to the project and the areas I think I can help with
> are:
>
>  * Reviewing the open bugs and trying to link duplicates, recreate new
> ones, and test if old bugs have been fixed but not closed.
> For instance https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/593782 has been in
> progress for 3 years and appears to be a Will Not Fix.
>
> Is there a specific person who "owns" triage and bugs or is it open and I
> should proceed using my best judgement?
>
>  * Reviewing and improving the main website
> For instance KiCad appears to no longer have a presence on Sourceforge, so
> the News, Press, and Sourceforge links are dead on the homepage. (
> http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/KiCad+EDA+Software+Suite) There
> also are pages which could be improved both in content and organization I
> believe.
>
> Who should I talk with about this?
>
>  * Updating the binary distribution of KiCad for Windows
> The version linked to from the homepage is from over a year ago. If this
> is the current Stable version, it seems like that should be explicitly
> stated and links to that version for the other OSes provided. I'd like to
> work with Brian Sidebotham or others from the winbuilder project to supply
> more recent binaries under the unstable/development label.
>
> The existence of a stable version or a release schedule is something I
> wanted to ask about. I searched the website and developers list archive but
> didn't see any references to either. This is the area I'm most uncertain
> about as I don't have a full grasp on the project status and roadmap.
>
> Thanks ahead of time for your replies. I hope I can help out and get to
> know some of you.
>
> Cheers,
> Derek
>
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