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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Fabien,

I know Ian had some thoughts about this so hopefully he has a chance
to review this document soon and reply.

We have not been using MRs to discuss specifications previously, so I
would say we can keep the discussion in that document until people
actually start writing code (unless the other lead devs think we
should set up some system for using MRs for this kind of thing)

In general, I think that this is a big project (there is a lot of
refactoring that needs to be done under the hood in order to make it
possible to automate the output generation, right now most of it is
unfortunately linked to the GUI).  Because of this, it might be good
to figure out if there are parts of it that can be targeted for V6 and
parts that likely will need to wait until after V6.

Best,
Jon


On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:30 AM <f.corona@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ‌
> ‌Hi all,
>
> I completed the document to a point where I am unlikely to change it change it on my own, without your feedback.
> What is the usual way for a document to be reviewed, and hopefully to make its way as a specification document ?
>
> Should I create a MR on gitlab for discussion ?
>
>
> Here is the link to the document:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LG-S1c7BfGrXj_r0ITTi80kftTeIIJPo4zKom7jv4U4/edit?usp=sharing
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Fabien Corona
>
>
>
>
> To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: Fabien Corona <f.corona@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 23:28:40 +0200
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>
> Hi all,
>
>
> In regards with issue #2346, I think Kicad users would highly benefit
> from an output automation.
>
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2346
>
>
> I know some work already has been done with plugins like Kiplot (
> https://github.com/johnbeard/kiplot ) , but I think Kicad should have
> its own automated output generation.
>
> I do not know if someone already started to specify how something like
> this should work, but I started a document:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LG-S1c7BfGrXj_r0ITTi80kftTeIIJPo4zKom7jv4U4/edit?usp=sharing
>
>
> This document describes how the user could use the automated output
> generation, and provides some visuals. It does not describe how it
> should work under the hood ( storing information in files, how the
> plotting tools connect,... ).
>
> It deals with user interface.
>
>
> If you have any comment about the document, please add them to the
> document. If you know any other document that deals with this matter, I
> would love to have a link to it.
>
> If we get to something that satisfies (almost ?) everybody, we could
> then add some implementation notes, and hopefully we could have
> something working for V6.
>
>
> Kicadly yours,
>
> Fabien Corona
>
>
>
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