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Re: v5 timeline

 

I think having a milestone for use in the bug tracker is valuable, I would
urge you not to have that deleted. The v5 series can go ofc.

On Apr 1, 2017 11:31 AM, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Only kicad-committers should be able to do this.  When I get a chance I
> check the launchpad permissions.  Please remove it when you get a
> chance.  I do not want users thinking this is an official rc1 candidate.
>  It is not.  The symbol library table, stitching via, and revised
> connection algorithm are all part of v5 rc1.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 3/31/2017 5:27 PM, John Beard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I "accidentally" made a Launchpad series for v5:
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/kicad/5.0
> >
> > I wasn't really expecting to have permissions to do that, but it went
> > though, so here it is! I doubled down on it and so there's also a
> > milestone for RC1. Project management people are of course welcome to
> > assign themselves as managers as needed.
> >
> > I think we can use these to target important bugs/features to v5, so
> > we can get visibiliy of what remains to do and people looking to pick
> > off bugs can have a list of things to hit first.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> Sounds good.
> >>
> >> I've collected all the things I want to work on for 5.0 properly on
> >> Launchpad now, assigned to myself. These are:
> >>
> >> - Fix remaining UI/UX issues with the component selector.
> >> - Investigate possible footprint preview panel locale issues
> >> - Implement footprint selection tags on history items
> >> - Document the new component selector.
> >> - Fix OpenGL compatibility test crash on startup [1]
> >> - Implement clean OpenGL/Cairo fallback [2]
> >>
> >> Plus a few more minor things (all assigned to me on Launchpad).
> >>
> >> I'd like to get all these done before 5.0, is that okay? I'm not sure
> >> how far off the geometry library and via stitching are so I don't know
> >> how much time that gives me.
> >>
> >> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1676915
> >> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1676916
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:47:19AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>> Hey Chris,
> >>>
> >>> The following items are holding up the v5 branch:
> >>>
> >>> Symbol library table (me).
> >>> Unified geometry library (Tom).
> >>> Stitching via support (Tom & Orson).
> >>>
> >>> I was hoping I would be done with the symbol library table by now but
> >>> I'm really having trouble finding the time to finish it up.  I'm not
> >>> sure where Tom and Orson stand.  I just saw an email from Tom the other
> >>> day so it looks like there is still a bit of work to do on his end with
> >>> the stitching via support.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Wayne
> >>>
> >>> On 3/28/2017 10:45 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> >>>> Hey Wayne,
> >>>>
> >>>> In the interest of prioritizing my own work - just curious if you have
> >>>> any idea how long it's going to be before declaring the v5 feature
> >>>> freeze, and what that's waiting on.
> >>>>
> >>>
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