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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm seeing more new and not so new developers submitting patches to the
developers list and/or bug reports that change the current behavior of
KiCad both internally and/or externally.  Here is an example
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1500570.  It is *always* a good idea to
get input from the developers list before making these kinds of changes.
 There may be serious objections and/or beneficial input from other
developers.  Just because someone files a but report does not mean that
the developers will agree that the change is good for the project.  Not
to pick on Stefan who went out of his way to write this code (thank you
Stefan), but checking before you code can prevent you from wasting you
time writing code that may not be accepted by the project.  Before you
open a discussion, please search the developer's mailing list.  Chances
are it's already been discussed and rehashing it wastes our limited
developer resources.  Thank you for you cooperation.

Cheers,

Wayne