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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have now added the Librarians team as write for those four repos. Please
tag appropiately. I can tag them if HEAD is good enough.

2017-08-24 20:59 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:

> My script tells me this:
> ### SUMMARY ###
> Repos to be removed from release tar: 0 Air_Coils_SML_NEOSID.pretty
> Choke_Axial_ThroughHole.pretty Choke_Radial_ThroughHole.pretty
> Choke_SMD.pretty Choke_Toroid_ThroughHole.pretty
> Choke_Common-Mode_Wurth.pretty Filters_HF_Coils_NEOSID.pretty
> Inductors.pretty Inductors_NEOSID.pretty NF-Transformers_ETAL.pretty
> Oddities.pretty Sockets_MOLEX_KK-System.pretty
> Transformers_SMPS_ThroughHole.pretty Transformers_CHK.pretty
> Connectors_Amphenol.pretty TerminalBlocks_WAGO.pretty
> TerminalBlocks_Phoenix.pretty divers.pretty discret.pretty labels.pretty
> RF_Antennas.pretty Connectors_Card.pretty
> Repos to be included to the release tar: 82
> Repos expected to be included from the fp-lib-table:86
> 8d7
> < Connectors_Card.pretty
> 69d67
> < RF_Antennas.pretty
> 76,77d73
> < TerminalBlocks_Phoenix.pretty
> < TerminalBlocks_WAGO.pretty
>
>
> 2017-08-24 16:59 GMT+02:00 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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