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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great work Rene!

Last call for any changes before I tag RC2.  I wait another hour or two
but I'm going to tag rc2 before I call it a night unless there is
something critical that needs to get committed.

On 05/20/2018 10:24 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> as promised in my last response the library repos are now tagged with
> 5.0.0-rc2
> If there is another major delay we might need to introduce a rc2.1 tag
> or something (or accept that at that time the libs are a bit older)
> 
> On 18/05/18 23:45, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> Hi Rene,
>>
>> On 05/18/2018 11:53 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
>>> On 18/05/18 16:44, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>>> If any of our doc and library devs are on this mailing list, please
>>>> forward this information so we aren't making major changes to the docs
>>>> and libraries at the last minute.
>>>>
>>> We have one important pull request open that i will fix up my self
>>> tomorrow if the contributor does not fix the remaining issues him self.
>>> (Removing duplicate power pins from symbols as this can be quite
>>> dangerous if the user connects them multiple times.)
>>>
>>> After this is merged i will tag the library with "5.0.0-rc2" (Tomorrow
>>> evening)
>>>
>>> After this tag is set we will no longer allow renaming of libs until v6
>>> development. (Adding new libs will still be allowed.)
>> I'm OK with this.
>>
>>> I will also create a kicad 4 compatibility backport for this lib. (The
>>> intention is to allow users to use the new library structure for new
>>> projects even if they can not update to a nightly build. This should
>>> reduce their work when they then switch over to kicad 5)
>>>
>>> This backport will contain a reduced number of footprints as footprints
>>> with custom or roundrect pads are not supported by kicad 4. I will also
>>> backport the symbol libs. The 3d lib does not need any work in this
>>> regard but i will still ad a separate release tag to make it easier for
>>> users. Not sure if i will make a backport of the templates.
>>> Creating this backport will take some time but i hope to have it done
>>> one week after the rc2 tag is set.
>> Awesome!  I'm sure our v4 users will appreciate this.
>>
>>>
>>> Regarding the issue about footprint connection you reported in [1]:
>>> All symbols that have a valid symbol in the footprint lib are now
>>> correctly connected. Sadly a lot of symbols still need footprints to be
>>> generated. (Symbols where in the lib that never had a valid footprint)
>>> Some of this will be fixed after the rc2 release. This will not impact
>>> the library structure so i assume we can include these changes in the
>>> final v5 release. (It will simply add more footprints.)
>> That fine by me.  If we are going add new symbol libraries during v5, I
>> don't see any reason not to add new footprints and footprint libraries.
>> We should try to avoid wholesale renaming and/or moving of libraries and
>> their contents to avoid headaches for users.  If we have any major
>> library reorganizations, we can always create a v5 branch as we do for
>> the KiCad source.
>>
>> Thank you for all of your hard work on the libraries.  They really have
>> come a long way since v4 was released.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>>> [1]: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-symbols/issues/520
>>>
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