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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this looks pretty good.

Is there somewhere we suggest people should go to ask for help?

What about adding a sentence near the beginning that says something
like "Ideally, upgrading to a new version of KiCad would take no
effort on your part.  We take effort to minimize changes that require
special handling, but sometimes they are required in order to fix
serious issues."

For upgrading users:

I will recommend that they should make a backup of their projects per
this document.

Should I recommend for them to make a backup of their KiCad support
directory (the one with template, library, et al)?

Regarding fp-table-lib, should I recommend that users should make a
backup of their current one?  Can I just tell them to move it to a
backup, and will KiCad use a good one if there isn't a user-specific
one?  Do I need to tell them to go into template/ and copy that one?

Do I need to specify that users copy sym-table-lib out, or will KiCad
do that automatically if they don't have one?

(I feel pretty guilty asking these questions but I think the
alternative is that I dig into it and hold up the release :( )

Adam
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:10 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I pushed the v5 upgrade document to my personal repo[1] on git hub.  I
> made it part of the KiCad documentation but I don't have a strong
> opinion about where to add it.  This just seemed like the most logic
> place.  Please review it when you get a chance.  If you find any issues
> let me know, send me a patch, or submit a pull request against my doc
> repo.  Keep in mind that this document is only to detail the changes
> that will effect project compatibility with older versions of kicad and
> the perils of symbol remapping.  Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/stambaughw/kicad-doc/blob/master/src/kicad/kicad_upgrading_from_v4_to_v5.adoc
>
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