Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-23 Thread Steven A. Falco
Thanks for the info. Repology is now showing Fedora Rawhide as having 5.0.0 available. Steve On 07/22/2018 10:18 PM, Mark Roszko wrote: > For the record, the little badges on the kicad website for linux > distro package versions come from https://repology.org which scans the > repos of

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-22 Thread Mark Roszko
For the record, the little badges on the kicad website for linux distro package versions come from https://repology.org which scans the repos of many distros and provides the badges. So changes in the version of the package may not be reflected immediately until they rescan. Pretty useful since

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-22 Thread Nick Østergaard
Thank you. Den søn. 22. jul. 2018 kl. 15.04 skrev Steven A. Falco : > > I took a look, and no changes to the web site are needed regarding Fedora > packages. Thanks for the pointers. > > Steve > > On 07/20/2018 09:48 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: > > Hi Steven, > > > > The website is actually

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-22 Thread Steven A. Falco
I took a look, and no changes to the web site are needed regarding Fedora packages. Thanks for the pointers. Steve On 07/20/2018 09:48 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: > Hi Steven, > > The website is actually managed via github, and you can fork the > repository and make the edit and make a pull

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-20 Thread Steven A. Falco
I looked at that page, and I opened a bug to update the text from 5.0.0-rc3 to 5.0.0: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1782858 The page looks a little strange in Fedora's Firefox, although it looks fine in chrome. I attached a screenshot showing how part of the text is chopped off. I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-20 Thread Nick Østergaard
Hi Steven, Thank you. Will you submit a pr for changes on the fedora download page if at all needed? http://kicad-pcb.org/download/fedora/ Nick Den fre. 20. jul. 2018 kl. 20.02 skrev Steven A. Falco : > > I've made a build of 5.0.0 for Fedora rawhide: > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-20 Thread Steven A. Falco
I've made a build of 5.0.0 for Fedora rawhide: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1129084 This will take a little while to push out to the Fedora mirror servers. Steve On 07/20/2018 07:53 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Great work Rene and thanks to all of the library

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-20 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Great work Rene and thanks to all of the library developers. Our libraries will be one of the most noticeable improvements in the v5 release. Cheers, Wayne On 07/19/2018 06:51 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > Awesome, thanks for the update! > Den fre. 20. jul. 2018 kl. 00.48 skrev Rene Pöschl : >>

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-19 Thread Nick Østergaard
Awesome, thanks for the update! Den fre. 20. jul. 2018 kl. 00.48 skrev Rene Pöschl : > > The library repos should now all be tagged. (Github had some server > problems so it all took quite some time. I hope nothing got damaged > because of that.) > > On 19/07/18 10:49, Nick Østergaard wrote: > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-19 Thread Rene Pöschl
The library repos should now all be tagged. (Github had some server problems so it all took quite some time. I hope nothing got damaged because of that.) On 19/07/18 10:49, Nick Østergaard wrote: This sounds good. Thank you. Den tor. 19. jul. 2018 kl. 10.43 skrev Rene Pöschl : On 18/07/18

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-19 Thread Nick Østergaard
This sounds good. Thank you. Den tor. 19. jul. 2018 kl. 10.43 skrev Rene Pöschl : > > On 18/07/18 19:59, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > > Am 18.07.18 um 19:55 schrieb Rene Pöschl: > >>> I'm traveling the whole Saturday and Sunday to Debian DebCamp and > >>> DebConf in Taiwan and working on packaging

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-19 Thread Rene Pöschl
On 18/07/18 19:59, Carsten Schoenert wrote: Am 18.07.18 um 19:55 schrieb Rene Pöschl: I'm traveling the whole Saturday and Sunday to Debian DebCamp and DebConf in Taiwan and working on packaging kicad-packages3d on a laptop is PITA. So I'd like to this at home on a more powerful machine at home

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Carsten Schoenert
Am 18.07.18 um 19:55 schrieb Rene Pöschl: >> I'm traveling the whole Saturday and Sunday to Debian DebCamp and >> DebConf in Taiwan and working on packaging kicad-packages3d on a laptop >> is PITA. So I'd like to this at home on a more powerful machine at home >> latest on Friday afternoon. >> >>

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Rene Pöschl
On 18/07/18 18:09, Carsten Schoenert wrote: Hi, Am 18.07.18 um 16:23 schrieb Nick Østergaard: I probably didn't mention this clearly. It is also good for me if everything is tagged on friday, I guess that is mostly about the libs, as I will probably tag i18n and doc myself. I'd like to see at

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Carsten Schoenert
Hi, Am 18.07.18 um 16:23 schrieb Nick Østergaard: > I probably didn't mention this clearly. It is also good for me if > everything is tagged on friday, I guess that is mostly about the libs, > as I will probably tag i18n and doc myself. I'd like to see at least the packages3D repository is

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Nick Østergaard
I am away from monday, so no worries. ons. 18. jul. 2018 16.27 skrev Wayne Stambaugh : > Nick, > > Please let me know if you can't get around to tagging the i18n and doc > repos. I can tag them on Friday if need be. > > Cheers, > > Wayne > > On 7/18/2018 10:23 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > > I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Nick, Please let me know if you can't get around to tagging the i18n and doc repos. I can tag them on Friday if need be. Cheers, Wayne On 7/18/2018 10:23 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > I probably didn't mention this clearly. It is also good for me if > everything is tagged on friday, I guess

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Nick Østergaard
I probably didn't mention this clearly. It is also good for me if everything is tagged on friday, I guess that is mostly about the libs, as I will probably tag i18n and doc myself. I am on vacation next week with no connectivity. Nick Den ons. 18. jul. 2018 kl. 16.19 skrev Wayne Stambaugh : > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Sorry about that. I missed the restructure info. I think I covered most of the changes in my repo. I will try to get my changes pushed tonight so I can get some feedback before the official release announcement. On 7/18/2018 10:13 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > Ohh, well, I wrote that. He just

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Nick Østergaard
Ohh, well, I wrote that. He just restructured the dir structure recently. I have only listed features added that could remember at some point, there are certainly missing. So I suggest any developer who have anything to add just creates a PR ASAP. Den ons. 18. jul. 2018 kl. 16.10 skrev Wayne

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Nick, A preliminary draft is already written[1] by Mark Roszko. I just need to finish cleaning it up and remove the draft tag for the release announcement. Cheers, Wayne [1]: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website/blob/master/content/blog/release-5.0.0.adoc On 7/18/2018 10:01 AM, Nick

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
AFAIK, old stable was any stable release prior to the v4 release. From v4 on we should make any required migration paths version specific. On 7/18/2018 9:58 AM, Adam Wolf wrote: > Oof! I hadn't even thought of that. I was just concerned about folks > not understanding that "old stable" means a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Nick Østergaard
Wayne, If you have a draft ready for the release announcement, please create a pull request with it as a draft or push it as a draft, in case we would like to add more info. This to avoid anyone else in attempting to write it. Nick Den ons. 18. jul. 2018 kl. 14.41 skrev Wayne Stambaugh : > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Adam Wolf
Oof! I hadn't even thought of that. I was just concerned about folks not understanding that "old stable" means a specific nameless release, rather than the phrase "a stable release that is older than the current release". Adam On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 8:56 AM Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > Migrating

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Migrating is definitely a version to version issue so v4 to v5 migration would make the upgrade path clear. I would hope no one is upgrading from old stable to v5. That would really be ugly. On 7/18/2018 9:50 AM, Adam Wolf wrote: > I am talking with Nick about if we want the "migration from old

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Adam Wolf
I am talking with Nick about if we want the "migration from old stable" still in the sidebar, or if we should replace it with V4 to V5 migration, or if we should make a new generic migration page. I think we could discuss it here, rather than a Github issue on the website repo. I think

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
The goal is to have everything tagged by Friday and then give the package builders a few days to get the 5.0.0 packages (or a least most of them) built and added to the website before making the official announcement. I still have some changes to make to the release announcement which I should

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-18 Thread Maciej Sumiński
Tell me if I am wrong, but I start to believe we are going to publish v5 this Friday. Is there anything missing I could help with? Do we have the website updates ready? Cheers, Orson On 07/11/2018 08:49 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Are there any critical bugs remaining to be fixed for the stable

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-12 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 7/12/2018 10:50 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote: > On 12/07/18 16:35, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> I agree with you in principal but the practical side of these changes is >> far more subtle as demonstrated by the simulation and erc issues.  The >> invisible power pin issue has been around for as long as I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-12 Thread jp charras
Le 12/07/2018 à 16:43, Rene Pöschl a écrit : > On 12/07/18 16:20, jp charras wrote: >> Le 12/07/2018 à 16:04, Rene Pöschl a écrit : >>> Sadly the old symbols are completely unusable in many modern circuits which >>> use more then one power >>> supply for different parts of the circuit. Hidden

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-12 Thread Rene Pöschl
On 12/07/18 16:20, jp charras wrote: Le 12/07/2018 à 16:04, Rene Pöschl a écrit : Sadly the old symbols are completely unusable in many modern circuits which use more then one power supply for different parts of the circuit. Hidden power pins are not the way to go! The fix for this bug must

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-12 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I agree with you in principal but the practical side of these changes is far more subtle as demonstrated by the simulation and erc issues. The invisible power pin issue has been around for as long as I can remember (mid 80s). Oddly enough, op-amps typically have power pins shown on all units

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-12 Thread jp charras
Le 12/07/2018 à 16:04, Rene Pöschl a écrit : > Sadly the old symbols are completely unusable in many modern circuits which > use more then one power > supply for different parts of the circuit. Hidden power pins are not the way > to go! The fix for this > bug must come from a different side then

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-12 Thread Moses McKnight
I certainly agree about the invisible pins! What I have done for my symbols is to put the power pins on the first unit of a multi-unit component and make them visible. On 07/12/2018 09:04 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote: Sadly the old symbols are completely unusable in many modern circuits which use

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-12 Thread Rene Pöschl
Sadly the old symbols are completely unusable in many modern circuits which use more then one power supply for different parts of the circuit. Hidden power pins are not the way to go! The fix for this bug must come from a different side then reintroducing hidden power pins. On 12/07/18 13:46,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-12 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 7/12/2018 8:01 AM, jp charras wrote: > Le 12/07/2018 à 13:46, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : >> Rene, >> >> Bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1781290 may be an issue. The >> decision to separate symbol power pins as a separate symbol unit caused >> this bug. I didn't think about this when

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-12 Thread jp charras
Le 12/07/2018 à 13:46, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : > Rene, > > Bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1781290 may be an issue. The > decision to separate symbol power pins as a separate symbol unit caused > this bug. I didn't think about this when the changes to the symbol > libraries where

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-12 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Rene, Bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1781290 may be an issue. The decision to separate symbol power pins as a separate symbol unit caused this bug. I didn't think about this when the changes to the symbol libraries where made but it is going to cause issues for anyone trying to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-12 Thread Rene Pöschl
The libs should be ready to go. We might still fix some minor things till the release but we do not have any showstopper topics open. On 11/07/18 20:49, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: Are there any critical bugs remaining to be fixed for the stable 5 release? I didn't see any thing outstanding but I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-11 Thread Nick Østergaard
For windows the installer should also be in good nick. No pun intended. There are some minor things that I would like to do, but they are by no means a blocker for a release. Nick Den ons. 11. jul. 2018 kl. 21.35 skrev Adam Wolf : > > MacOS installer is ready. > > Adam > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-11 Thread Adam Wolf
MacOS installer is ready. Adam On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 1:50 PM Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > Are there any critical bugs remaining to be fixed for the stable 5 > release? I didn't see any thing outstanding but I may have missed > something while I was on vacation. I'm going to create a 5.0.0 >

[Kicad-developers] Stable 5 release.

2018-07-11 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Are there any critical bugs remaining to be fixed for the stable 5 release? I didn't see any thing outstanding but I may have missed something while I was on vacation. I'm going to create a 5.0.0 milestone for the last few remaining bugs and shoot for a 7/20 tag date unless there are any more