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[Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello

I haven't had any feedback/comments regarding my merge request or 
Annotation suggestion for quite a few days now so I don't know whether 
my comments/pushes are being broadcast or people are simply busy working 
on other things.

So, sorry for the spam.

I just added this to the Annotations epic 
(https://gitlab.com/groups/kicad/code/-/epics/19) as I have been working 
on annotation. I would appreciate any feedback on the issues mentioned 
below.


1) No undo for annotation dialog
    Problem: eeSchema undo seems to be page confined.
    Fixing this would probably be a good idea but a lot of work and 
likely beyond my abilities
    at a this time. I can make a special "undo" stack for annotation as 
a stop gap.

2) Annotate while adding is a WIP see 
https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg42354.html

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1660134 for items 4 - 6.
4) Annotate selection

    I should be able to manage this


5) Anotate without a number
6) Annotate number only.

   5 and 6 seem pretty straightforward to implement though there are 
filters on dialogs which will
   have to be fixed. There may be an issue with transfer between 
schematic and PCB
   (i.e. Update PCB to/from schematic) as well as geographic annotation 
from the PCB as error
   checking is done on all of these. I am working on a unified 
reference "splitter" for eeSchema and
   PCBNew to ensure consistency.

   My concern is that annotation seems pretty well woven into eeSchema, 
DRC, library editor, etc., and
   something will break if we do this. For example, having a reference 
with RK causes DRC to ask for
   annotation as does updating PCB from Schematic. If things break they 
can be fixed, but what if the
   breakage is only apparent on edge conditions? How can we test?

8) Subsheets don't match multi-unit element annotations. (lp:#1788976)
   I do not understand this

9) Implement more (and custom?) annotation schemes 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1800726
   I have already coded prefixs to allow for IEE 200, etc.. One can 
then annotate sheet by sheet
   to give a prefix to each sheet. Alternatively we could add a sheet 
specific symbol/flag/notation
   which defines a prefix per sheet. I suspect that reannotating each 
sheet with a sheet prefix
   would meet most use cases.

10) Clear annotation does not work under MSW 
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/1942
    I cannot replicate this. The results I get are different from the 
video. It works fine for me.