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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brian,

I haven't looked at your MR yet since it seemed like a lot of other people
were already engaged and I think "too many cooks in the kitchen" can be a
detriment to code review.
I just opened it up today and noticed that it needs to be rebased on master
(can't be done automatically, which probably means some code it is based on
has diverged)

@Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx> since you already were reviewing,
any comments on the latest?

Best,
-Jon

On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 12:06 PM Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
>
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