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 On 1/09/18 00:44, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:

> I don't ever remember myself or JP not being interested in round traces.
>   It's just been a matter of priorities and manpower.
With arc tracks I had an itch to scratch and tried twice to get core dev 
buy-in (https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg27878.html, 
https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg29877.html) so that I 
could put together a patch that used an approach that would get 
accepted. When suggesting options for modifying class TRACK I got 
silence from the core devs and took the hint. C'est la vie.
> I do remember
> being pretty firm on ensuring that the gerber plotting and DRC are
> correct before the drawing tools and file format changes go live.  The
> reason for this should be obvious.  Fixing the DRC is in the v6 road map
> so that would be the best place to start for someone who has a lot of
> free time.

Why limit development to people that have a lot of free time?

The v6 roadmap has not been updated in a long time. What remains to be 
fixed? Looking at the commit history to DRCish files, it looks like 
there is plenty of activity going on. Can we ask those people to touch 
the roadmap and update it?

There have been some ambitious ideas posted on this list about what DRC 
needs to be, as well as bugs and blueprints. They are not in the v6 
roadmap. Should any of them be added?


> The amount of work to implement this is not going to be
> trivial and I will expect the design and quality of the DRC code changes
> to be high.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne