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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/12/2018 10:18 AM, John Beard wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> Great news!
> 
> I have one suggestion for a currently-un-milestoned bug that I'd (partly
> selfishly) really like to see fixed for v5:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1518694
> 
> This is the one where you can't shift posture when routing to a pad in
> the PNS router. It's certainly not a critical bug, and can be worked
> around by routing "backwards". However, if it's an easy fix (I'm trying
> to find it, but I don't know anything about the router code, so I have
> so far only managed to add a ton of trace and confuse myself), it would
> be shame IMO to leave it in for release. It's something that pretty much
> all users of the PNS router would run into almost as soon as they try to
> use it. If it's a harder fix or introduces unacceptably risky changes to
> the router, then it can wait.

I'm not opposed to this as long as the risk of adding new bugs to the
P&S router is low.  If not, I would rather wait until the first v5 point
release.  @Tom or @Orson, do you have any input on this?

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     I apologize for being absent the last few days but I had out of town
>     guests visiting and I didn't want to be rude and spend a lot of time in
>     front of my computer.
> 
>     Things seem to be coming along nicely for the v5 stable release and it
>     appears that all of the critical bugs have been fixed.  Hopefully no new
>     critical bugs will surface between now and release time and we can get
>     some good testing on the critical bugs that were recently fixed.  I
>     would *really* like to get the stable release out before I go on
>     vacation during the week of July 4th.  Are there any known issues that
>     anyone can think of that would prevent this from happening?  If so,
>     please speak up.  If not, let's try to shoot for a June 29th release
>     date.
> 
>     Thank you to everyone for your hard work.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
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