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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

Mitja,

Thanks for expressing interest, and I would just like to say that you do
not have to be a C++ developer to contribute to KiCad. There is a healthy
Python presence in both the core codebase (the footprint generators and BoM
scripts) as well as the library management systems (symbol/footprint
generators, testing scripts, etc.). Working on these also doesn't require
recompiling the entire KiCad code base to test/develop.

If you would like to contribute, take a look at the open bug reports in
Launchpad tagged with python [1]. Some of them are for the actual
interface, but there are a few that are actually in the scripts themselves
[2], [3]. You could also look through the open issues/PRs for the library
utilities [4] to see if anything interests you.

There is also going to be an effort in v6 to clean up/improve the Pcbnew
Python interface and hopefully add one to Eeschema as well. This hasn't
been started yet, but when it is the input of Python programmers (and
people who have developed action plugins) would be really appreciated.

-Ian

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bugs?field.tag=python
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1848472
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1849961
[4] https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library-utils/issues

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 8:26 AM mitjan696-ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxx <
mitjan696-ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Seth,
>
> This does sound like an invitation. I've written a number of action
> plugins [1] and would be glad to help with KiCad main code, but my C++
> skills are nonexistent (I do know a bit of C though, so the basic syntax
> should not be an issue). I've never built KiCad from source and I am
> developing on Windows. So how should I proceed?
>
> Best regard, Mitja
>
> [1] https://github.com/MitjaNemec/Kicad_action_plugins
>
>
> On Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 00:51:37 CET, Seth Hillbrand <
> seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> If there are any python developers who would like to contribute code to
> the KiCad codebase and are looking for how to do that, please contact
> me.  There's lots of Python work to be done.  I'm happy to help provide
> an introduction to that code and some structure for how to address a
> number of existing wishlist items that require Python.
>
> Best-
> Seth
>
>
> Seth Hillbrand
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