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Re: New border/title blocks?

 

> Nick, is packaging Windows your domain? Is there any way I could help to
get them included in an updated 5.1.5 release or 5.1.6? I know the GitLab
stuff is taking a lot of time from everybody but I don't want to let this
wither away.

He is the main mainter yes.

If you want to help him.
https://github.com/kicad/kicad-winbuilder
Make your edits to that, that repo is the entire packaging
mechanism/installer/bundler.

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 7:08 PM Evan Shultz <evan.shultz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In 5.1.5_2, on Windows, I don't see these new page layouts. So at least in
> Windows this wasn't packaged. I don't know about other OSes.
>
> Perhaps there's a way to make this more obvious so that when new page
> layouts are available all packagers are aware? The discussion above reads
> to me like the KiCad project has no control over this and my expectation
> would be that page layouts, templates, and other "extras" that are in the
> official repos would be included and consistent in all KiCad installs
> across all OSes.
>
> Nick, is packaging Windows your domain? Is there any way I could help to
> get them included in an updated 5.1.5 release or 5.1.6? I know the GitLab
> stuff is taking a lot of time from everybody but I don't want to let this
> wither away.
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 8:52 AM Evan Shultz <evan.shultz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Seth! It would be great to have more templates available for KiCad
>> users. You can ping me for the review when you post the PR.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 9:44 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2019-11-13 15:54, Evan Shultz wrote:
>>>
>>> The contributor submitted ISO templates and the librarians have access
>>> to those standards, thus the review and merge could proceed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Fair enough
>>>
>>>
>>> None of the librarians have access to the ASME standards and thus we
>>> could not properly review and vet them even if they were contributed.
>>> Should ASME templates be contributed that can be reviewed, they would be
>>> welcomed.
>>>
>>>
>>> OK, I can handle the ASME template submission.  If you run into
>>> standards in the future that the librarians don't have access to, feel free
>>> to ping the dev list.  We have a fair cross section of engineers who can
>>> help with reviews although we don't always follow the PRs at GitHub.
>>>
>>>
>>> -Seth
>>>
>>>
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Mark

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