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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oliver,

I merged your patch in the development branch.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 11/26/2017 06:07 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
>     I'm not opposed to a
>     contributors list on the website although I personally am not terribly
>     interested in maintaining this list.
> 
> 
> And yet we have an outdated list _compiled into a binary_ which does not
> reflect the great contributions made by the new 3D modelling team. I am
> not suggesting that we add everyone (quite the opposite), but just
> offload this to somewhere it can be updated without recompiling KiCad.
> 
> In any case, please find attached an updated patch which only fixes the
> links on the first tab, removing the outdated smisoto links.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/24/2017 04:01 PM, Oliver Walters wrote:
>     > Can we have a link to a page on the website where we have a long form
>     > list? Updating a binary file with a fluid list of contributors seems hokey.
> 
>     I know it's a bit dated but I think having credits in the application is
>     a nice reward for folks who have contributed.  I'm not opposed to a
>     contributors list on the website although I personally am not terribly
>     interested in maintaining this list.
> 
>     >
>     > The 3D models for example are now script generated using Maurice's tools
>     > but contributed by various people. 
>     >
>     > On 25 Nov 2017 06:37, "Simon Wells" <swel024@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:swel024@xxxxxxxxx>
>     > <mailto:swel024@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:swel024@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Well if you want to keep that panel it should represent all those
>     >     people who have provided artistry to kicad, as such for those non
>     >     programmers maybe there needs to be a script or similar that someone
>     >     can just put their name in and it will spit out a patch that can be
>     >     submitted to the mailing list
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     > On 25/11/2017, at 3:44 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>     >     <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     > Oliver,
>     >     >
>     >     > I would rather not remove the artists panel from the about dialog.  I
>     >     > know some of those folks haven't contributed recently but many of them
>     >     > contributed a lot of bitmaps and icons over the years so they deserve
>     >     > credit for the efforts.  The remaining changes are fine.
>     >     >
>     >     > Cheers,
>     >     >
>     >     > Wayne
>     >     >
>     >     > On 11/23/2017 08:31 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
>     >     >> As mentioned in previous thread, I have made some slight changes
>     >     to the
>     >     >> About dialog.
>     >     >>
>     >     >> 1. Wording / link tweaks
>     >     >> 2. Removed references to outdated links (now better served from the
>     >     >> kicad-pcb.org <http://kicad-pcb.org> <http://kicad-pcb.org>
>     <http://kicad-pcb.org> site)
>     >     >> 3. Removed "artists" tab - very outdated, 3D models are now community
>     >     >> contributed
>     >     >>
>     >     >> I have also added myself as a developer credit - if this is an
>     >     >> acceptable indulgence.
>     >     >>
>     >     >> Patch attached.
>     >     >>
>     >     >> Regards,
>     >     >>
>     >     >>
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