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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rene, which libs are you missing write access for? I can fix that for you
:)

On 24 Aug 2017 08:55, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank you Rene!
>
> What else needs to be done so we can get the packages built?
>
> On 8/23/2017 6:51 PM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
> > On 22/08/17 14:53, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> Sorry about the delay but I was dealing with a family emergency all last
> >> week.  Now that I'm getting caught up I really need to get stable
> >> version 4.0.7 released.  Are there any outstanding issue remaining
> >> before I make the release announcement?  I'm shooting for Friday or
> >> Saturday.
> >>
> >> On 8/17/2017 8:45 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
> >>> On 16/08/17 01:35, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>>> AFAIK we intend to use the 4.0.6 tag for libraries, docs, and i18n.
> >>>> The
> >>>> libraries in particular have changed significantly and I think it's a
> >>>> bad idea to break users schematics on a point release.
> >>> Does the default setup of kicad use the github plugin to get up do date
> >>> footprints?
> >> Github.
> >>
> >>> If so this will create inconsistencies within the lib. (If the symbol
> >>> and 3d model libs are not updated as well)
> >> I hadn't thought about that but you are correct.  Maybe it makes sense
> >> to tag the library repo where it stands right now.  That being said, as
> >> the footprints and library repo change, they may (will) eventually get
> >> out of sync so this isn't an ideal solution.
> >
> > I created the 4.0.7 tag on all our libs. (Well 4 footprint libs do not
> > have tags yet because i do not have write access to these 4 libs. The
> > good news is that these are very new libs with only a handful of
> > footprints in them.)
> >
> >>
> >>> In particular there might be a problem if either a footprint has been
> >>> renamed.
> >>> (Footprint field or footprint filters of a symbol is now wrong.)
> >>>
> >>> Or if the scaling, offset or rotation of 3d models changed within a
> >>> footprints 3d model settings.
> >>> (We got a lot of new correctly scaled models since the 4.0.6 release)
> >>>
> >>> In my opinion it would be best if users can control when they receive
> >>> new libraries.
> >>> Each update should make sure that all 3 types of libraries are updated
> >>> at the same time. (to the same version)
> >> Unfortunately, we are not set up to handle this at the moment and I
> >> would not ask our package devs to fix this for the 4.0.7 release.  It is
> >> certainly something worth considering for the 5 stable release.
> > I am aware of the fact that over time the libs will again get out of
> > sync. (I think everyone involved with the library is aware of this fact.)
> > The impact of our scaling changes will be reduced if users get an update
> > of the 3d lib.
> >
> >
> >
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