kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

after the discussion [1] some while ago (sorry, have been busy since then) Nick created a fork of wxWidgets in KiCad GitHub.
Before I start to create an (at least initial) branch, I’d like to get some agreements/opinions.

1) Branch name
wxWidgets has a lot of branches (I’ll see if we can delete what we don’t need).
To be consistent to the usual development flow, I’d propose to add the patches new branches.
I’d name them 
  KiCad_<original branch name>
If we want to emphasise that this is only for macOS, we could also use
  KiCad_macOS_<original branch name>
Opinions, decisions (@Wayne)?

2) Commits
The branch should always be rebased to wxWidgets changes, so all patches will stay at the top.
I still find it somehow difficult to see where original branch ends and own changes start.
Should we add some prefix “KiCad: …” to all commit messages?

3) Patches to add
I know what patches are mandatory, but didn’t follow 3.0.x for quite a while.
Especially, I don’t know what patches Adam currently uses for the official builds.
So, I need some feedback here (most important @Adam).

Last but not least… if someone else wants to help maintain it, please tell Nick to get write access…


Regards,
Bernhard

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg27348.html <https://www.mail-archive.com/kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg27348.html>