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[James Jackson <james.a.f.jackson.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick - Yep I've been chatting with Brian about having a look at his
schematic annotation code. Either me or him (depends who gets to it first!)
are going to merge his development branch with the upstream/master to check
it still works, and then take it from there, either collaborating to get it
working if it ticks all the boxes, or adding any other functionality that
has been suggested in the other threads.

What I'm not clear on yet, Brian, is if the schematic annotation work you
have done is logically separate from the geographic annotation? It looks
like it on the comments from your merge request, but it's just another
thing I need to be sure before I go looking at code seriously.

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:48 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am not sure exactly what kind of annotation stuff you are working
> on, but there is another guy working on some geographical annotation.
> See https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/108
>
> On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 19:07, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi James,
> >
> > By "breaking" changes, I'm assuming you mean changes yet to come and not
> > broken changes which is something all together different.  I don't
> > foresee any changes that would significantly impact the annotation code
> > if any at all so you are probably safe to work on it.  I highly
> > recommend that write up a simple proposal either on your GitLab instance
> > or something like Google docs so that the lead dev team can comment.
> > This helps to prevent you from wasting your time by implementing
> > something that get rejected by the dev team.
> >
> > I am surprised you think the annotation code looks deceptively simple.
> > I'm still trying to wrap my head around all of the potential sheet path
> > issues and I've written and/or refactored most of that code.  I don't
> > think anyone has gotten this right the first time including myself.
> >
> > All that being said, I think most users would find more advanced
> > annotation options useful so I would be in favor of it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > On 5/12/20 12:36 PM, James Jackson wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm starting to dig through the code to understand how to implement a
> > > new annotation scheme (all looks deceptively simple in terms of object
> > > manipulation... there will be a crocodile hiding there somewhere I'm
> > > sure!). However, I've noted in a few bug reports and new feature
> > > requests that there are likely to be significant changes to eeschema
> > > moving towards v6 (last reference I saw was in relation to vector and
> > > group busses). So, is it wise to start looking at a significant feature
> > > now (if the big changes have happened already), or wait until those
> > > changes are made, or is this not actually an issue? Just trying to
> avoid
> > > wasting effort and then have to re-duplicate it later!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > James.
> > >
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