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[Heikki Pulkkinen <hei6mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

It is not in that way, and I did not ask that.

Merry Christmas and happier new year for everyone.

Heikki




On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Heikki,
>
> I am replying to you directly to avoid any potential issues on the
> developers mailing list.  If you prefer to make this public, I am
> comfortable with that.
>
> Since English isn't your first language, I will try to give you the
> benefit of the doubt and assume that the intent of this post is not to
> bash the lead development team by showing how superior your code is.  If
> that is the intent of this message, please refrain from doing this.  The
> developers mailing list is not a forum for developers to advertise how
> superior their code is to other developers code.  This is mailing list
> is for developers to collaborate for the advancement the KiCad project.
> I am not interested in how great of a programmer you are.  I am
> interested in how you can help the project move forward.
>
> Too answer your earlier question as to why Tom's zone filling code got
> merged and yours did not is simple.  You seem to be unwilling to
> cooperate with the lead developers by making changes to your code so
> that we can get them merged.  I distinctly remember that I and other
> developers asked you on more than one occasion to fix issues with the
> connectivity assumptions you were making in your stitching via code.
> You seemed unwilling to make these changes so we could not use your code
> and instead had to write our own code to get the desired behavior.
> Apparently your code base has deviated so much from the KiCad
> development branch that Tom could not merge your threaded zone filling
> changes without a huge amount of effort on his part.  It is unreasonable
> expect lead developers to spend large amounts of time getting
> your code in an acceptable condition for merging.  My guess is that with
> a bit of cooperation on your part, we would have used your code instead
> of Tom's.  This would have freed Tom up to work on other things and your
> threaded zone filling code would be in the KiCad development branch.
>
> I would prefer that you do cooperate with the development team.  Many of
> your changes would be useful to the project.  I understand if you are
> not interested in working with the development team.  However, I'm not
> fine with you creating a hostile and combative environment for the
> development team just because you do not agree with out development
> process or you feel your changes are superior.  Hopefully you will
> thoughtfully consider your role in the KiCad project and work with the
> development team in the future.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
>
> On 12/15/2017 11:50 AM, Heikki Pulkkinen wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > And NEXT! I am going to improve pcbnew connectivity. I am just tired
> > that waiting in big boards when routed or dragged. Especially when
> > tracks are added full off my new track features (teardrops, t-junctions,
> > fillet junctions and rounded track corners). Old algorithm just worked
> > quite fine.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > Heikki
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Heikki Pulkkinen <hei6mail@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:hei6mail@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     With interest, I try to improve my parallel zone filling. And new
> >     records are:
> >
> >     Olinuxino A64 board.
> >     My parallel zone filling with new connectivity algo 4s.
> >     My parallel zone filling with old connectivity algo 6s.
> >     Current master 13s.
> >
> >     WRS board.
> >     My parallel zone filling with new connectivity algo 12s.
> >     My parallel zone filling with old connectivity algo 2min 37s. Old
> >     ratsnest calculation spend so much time at this board.
> >     Current master 1 min 47s.
> >
> >     Olinuxino A64 board with fully teardrops, stitch vias and rounded
> >     track corners inserted.
> >     My parallel zone filling with new connectivity algo 2min 16s.
> >     My parallel zone filling with old connectivity algo 2min 27s.
> >     Current master 3min 45s.
> >
> >
> >
> >     Records are to be broken. Other things... that was the question.
> >
> >
> >     Regards
> >
> >     Heikki
> >
> >
> >
> >
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