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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Heikki,

Thank you for the clarification.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 12/18/2017 8:22 AM, Heikki Pulkkinen wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto: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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