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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

I saw your previous message, I've just been busy getting v5 stuff ready.

On 3/7/2018 4:23 PM, Chris Gammell wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> /(tried sending this once but saw on the archive that it didn't go through)/
> 
> I'm pretty quiet on this list since I have zero ability to talk about
> the actual development. The future roadmap stuff seems relevant though.
> After chatting with the team at FOSDEM and Javier mentioning the idea of
> targeting KiCad towards small and medium businesses, I've been gathering
> up a group of people who are regularly using KiCad to design and
> manufacture boards (currently 40+ on the list)

Are these users professional users who are using KiCad at there day job
and is there any way to confirm this?

> 
> I am currently surveying that group and will be returning with some
> recommendations. I'm also asking if they would be interested in telling
> their stories to the development team when asked as part of the survey.

Thank you for gathering this information rather than having 40 users
bombarding the developers mailing list.  I appreciate the effort in
putting this information together.  I'm willing to listen to user
experience once v5 is out.  I am swamped at the moment and I don't want
users feel that they don't have my full attention.

Cheers,

Wayne

> 
> If there are others on the list that are doing manufacturing, please
> feel free to join here: http://kicad.info/manufacturing/ ;(it should
> prompt you with the survey upon joining the list)
> 
> ~Chris Gammell
> 
> (I run the KiCad.info forum <https://forum.kicad.info/>, which you're
> also invited to join if you're not already on there! Devs get special
> badges! :-D)
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 12:49 PM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:devel@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On Mar 7, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Seth Hillbrand
>     <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >
>     > You should take a look at Mitja Nemec's action plugin here:
>     https://github.com/MitjaNemec/Kicad_action_plugins
>     >
>     > I think the replicate layout covers a lot of the functionality you
>     are looking for.
> 
>     Wow, yeah, I will try that!
> 
>     > -S
>     >
>     > 2018-03-07 10:25 GMT-08:00 Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>     > Not sure how you would turn this into an effortless feature, but a
>     few months ago I’ve designed just that, replicated channels using
>     the same subsheet, on layout I did it once, then copy pasted and
>     manually renamed each component based on each channel number component.
>     >
>     > On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:42 AM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:devel@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >
>     > > On Mar 5, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     > >
>     > > Hi all,
>     > >
>     > > Since my day job involves a lot of engineering
>     planning/timelines/etc, I've had this rolling around in my head...
>     > > I started brainstorming some proposed changes to the roadmaps.
>     > >
>     > > I am using Google drive because that's what is easiest for me to
>     play with; I'm happy to send patches against the official roadmaps
>     if get some buy-in for this.
>     > >
>     > > Feel free to comment (either directly on the doc or by email)
>     with thoughts on this.
>     > >
>     > >
>     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mpxqvxLv497cyfk8KTQijhySSpFxF7ooTtcT_HU86kw/edit#
>     > >
>     > > Basically what I am proposing is to put most of the energy into
>     Eeschema for 6.0, with changes to other parts of the software
>     basically being "whatever people have time left over for". 
>     Everything else has been bumped to 7.0
>     >
>     > I’ll add one more to the list, clearly it’s a v7 wish … layout
>     “rooms,” like the Altium feature. Consider a multi-channel design
>     where you have to replicate a layout several times. It would be nice
>     to define the channel in, say, a hierarchical subsheet, and the
>     layout knows that it should replicate the work you do for one
>     channel across the others.
>     >
>     > I realize that this is a completely non-trivial thing to
>     implement, and further I recall some discussion about this but
>     nobody had any real good ideas about how to do it.
>     >
>     > -a
>     >
> 
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