gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Clifton
Hello everyone, Peter Brett seems to have gone mad... he's triaging bugs and coding fixes at an astonishing rate. Rather than our newly imported bugs in Launchpad sitting abandoned and ignored, they are being FIXED! There are a lot of bugs which are still New, ie.. haven't been confirmed or

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 07 January 2011 10:14:19 Peter Clifton wrote: Grab git HEAD of whichever package the bug is in (if you don't have it already), and try to confirm whether the bug is still present or not. Bug present: New - Confirmed Bug absent: Make a comment - set bug to Invalid,

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

2011-01-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-07 01:31:28 skrev Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: First I manually set the ”device=” to match existing components, No need. The device attribute is not used by anything in the gschem to pcb work flow. then I added ”numslots=” to match. This is

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: The orthogonality of these three pieces (schematic, footprint mapping, and PCB layout) is pleasing to me, but I have to admit that you would rarely find a need to create different PCBs from the exact same schematic. ack. Up to now, I _never_ had this situation in

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-07 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:21:29 +0100 Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Colin D Bennett wrote: The orthogonality of these three pieces (schematic, footprint mapping, and PCB layout) is pleasing to me, but I have to admit that you would rarely find a need to create

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-07 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 10:22:53 + Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: Please use Fix released only if the fix has been in a released version (the latest release was 1.6.1). Otherwise, use Fix committed. Is there any special tag or status indicator I can use for a bug which has a

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 07 January 2011 20:55:31 Colin D Bennett wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 10:22:53 + Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: Please use Fix released only if the fix has been in a released version (the latest release was 1.6.1). Otherwise, use Fix committed. Is there any

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-07 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:14:19 + Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: There are a lot of bugs which are still New, ie.. haven't been confirmed or triaged yet, and I'd like to encourage EVERYONE to come and help with that task. I have a question regarding the validity of the following bug:

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-07 Thread DJ Delorie
The minimimum size is still set to 1000, but was never updated when we switched to centimils, so the smallest board is now limited to 10 mils! Yes, the GTK sizes dialog still enforces it! ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: [Pcb-bugs] [Bug 699553] Re: tented mounting holes

2011-01-07 Thread DJ Delorie
Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com writes: OK, just realized that the solder mask was going to cover the mounting holes on my board after reading this bug report. It seems like the default for holes (i.e., not plated) should be no solder mask over them. Otherwise, what is the purpose of the

Re: gEDA-user: Apply to join the geda-bugs team to triage bugs...

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 22:15 +, Peter Clifton wrote: Hi, Kai-Martin has rightly pointed out that by default, users don't have access to set certain flags on bugs - such as priority. This comes in handy if you know you're submitting a feature-request (which by default, should be the

Re: gEDA-user: Apply to join the geda-bugs team to triage bugs...

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 22:59 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 22:15 +, Peter Clifton wrote: Hi, Kai-Martin has rightly pointed out that by default, users don't have access to set certain flags on bugs - such as priority. This comes in handy if you know you're

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-07 Thread Dietmar Schmunkamp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 07.01.2011 20:21, schrieb Kai-Martin Knaak: Colin D Bennett wrote: The orthogonality of these three pieces (schematic, footprint mapping, and PCB layout) is pleasing to me, but I have to admit that you would rarely find a need to create

Re: gEDA-user: Apply to join the geda-bugs team to triage bugs...

2011-01-07 Thread DJ Delorie
I would like some field that the release managers can use for scheduling if/when a bug/patch/feature should be in a release. I.e. if I tag a bug as next bug release, then the next bug release has to wait until that bug is fixed, but future bug release won't hold it back. Etc.

Re: gEDA-user: Apply to join the geda-bugs team to triage bugs...

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 18:47 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: I would like some field that the release managers can use for scheduling if/when a bug/patch/feature should be in a release. I.e. if I tag a bug as next bug release, then the next bug release has to wait until that bug is fixed, but future

gEDA-user: origin/master ... origin/stable-1.6 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Hi Peter B, Peter C. Just noted that git fetch of git://git.gpleda.org/gaf reports two branches. origin/master and origin/stable-1.6 . What is the significance of these? Where should I look for the brave new features that get pushed in the aftermath of the move from sourceforge to launchpad?

Re: gEDA-user: origin/master ... origin/stable-1.6 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 08 January 2011 02:02:38 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Hi Peter B, Peter C. Just noted that git fetch of git://git.gpleda.org/gaf reports two branches. origin/master and origin/stable-1.6 . What is the significance of these? Where should I look for the brave new features that get

Re: gEDA-user: origin/master ... origin/stable-1.6 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 03:02 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Hi Peter B, Peter C. Just noted that git fetch of git://git.gpleda.org/gaf reports two branches. origin/master and origin/stable-1.6 . What is the significance of these? Where should I look for the brave new features that get

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

2011-01-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: So, if I decide to use a 74-power symbol after all, is there any way I can design it making it automatically understand where it belongs, No. so I don't need to manually enter all those ”U1, U2, U3” und so weiter? Even if you don't use the power symbol, you

Re: gEDA-user: Launchpad up running [was: SourceForge bug trackers frozen]

2011-01-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: I've added you to the geda-bugs team, Thanks! I noticed more options shown when I log into launchpad. but that might well mean you get spammed with a lot of bug-mail (sorry!) If that is the case, let me know if it is a problem, and we'll investigate if it is

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Stefan Salewski wrote: For footprint shape that is correct -- for slots and pin numbers not. Slot numbers and their influence on pin numbers can safely be ignored in the first stages of schematic capture. With single/dual/quad packages it is not that simple. No algorithm could reliably guess

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-07 Thread DJ Delorie
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de writes: (I smell the scent of a feature request ;-) Like http://www.delorie.com/pcb/pin-mapping.html ? That lets the designer defer slot, package, and pin assignments until layout time. It assumes there's a unique identifier (not the refdes!) for each

Re: gEDA-user: origin/master ... origin/stable-1.6 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: PS: Any Peter A. around :-? I'm just heading to bed, and IIRC from IRC, so was Peter B. I was thinking like Peter A., Peter B., Peter C, ... ---)kaimartin(---(finally heading for bed, too) -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel:

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Dietmar Schmunkamp wrote: Start a design with gschem -- simulate it -- get it thru pcb -- extract physical paramaters from the layout -- OPTIMIZE* -- feedback to gschem -- restart the loop. Unfortunately, at the current state of geda and friends the simulate step is a weak spot. Not so much