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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes I was also talking about 108, it is showing as needing local rebase for
me.
Since everyone is a volunteer here, I have found that often there will be
silence for a few days if people are caught up with other responsibilities.

-Jon

On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 7:36 PM Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Jon
>
> Thanks for the reply. I was referring to
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/108, not the earlier
> one which I borked.
>
> I understand people have lots of things to do but given my lack of
> expertise I am never sure if its something I did or just part of the
> process so I always assume radio silence means I screwed something up.
>
> I think !108 is pretty up to date with master. I will have to push a new
> version with consistent handling of references with eeSchema.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 2020-03-01 7:31 p.m., Jon Evans wrote:
>
> 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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