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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 14 August 2014 23:55, 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.
>

Hi Derek,

Thanks for your interest in KiCad.

With regards to KiCad-Winbuilder, just shout for what you need. I
think anyone could provide automated latest development binaries using
KiCad-Winbuilder so long as they understand the environment it
produces - i.e you must run it through the RunKiCad.bat file instead
of running it directly, and it will not install like some people are
used to. It's essentially a portable app.

But please don't be afraid to approach me or get stuck in and send me
patches for KiCad-Winbuilder for anything you want to do with it. I'm
very open to help with it as since having our new daughter around time
has become extremely scarce.

Best Regards,

Brian.