Regarding the blog. What do you expect to read there? What detail level and so on?
But on the other hand a new site not based on the unstable Confluence setup is slightly in the works.
I hope it’s something very simple, like wordpress 
What to expect to read on there? Some suggestions:
- obvious link (not hidden deep somewhere) to the bug tracker
- link to the mailing list(s) / groups
- separate pages for docu / downloads (quick to reach & find, without drilling through 10E3 pages)
- some sort of rough timetable (“next release in 2 months”)
- links to demo projects, image galleries (flickr / ipernity…), parts, libs, 3D models, videos…
- link to THIS place
and so on.
Not sure if a separate kicad wiki is necessary, might be useful for documentation purposes.
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See @madworm’s reply, something thats not difficult to find that has a rough time line of expected features. Things that are in the works, basically just a quick and easy reference to find useful information instead of trying to hunt for it.
It’s not, it’s all using Confluence by Atlassian. Note how similar the base template from Atlassian and the KiCad site are.
While not the intent of this post, if people are interested in writing content immediately, there is a Wordpress site at kicad.info, though it’s only serving static (and boring) pages right now.
I can’t resist the temptation to bump this up the list. I admit I don’t subscribe to the developer mailing list as Chris suggested, but I’m not sure I’d be able to make head or tail of the mails anyway.
Any inside scoop?
Still some time left, a bit out of context, see:
[…] It looks like we have some time since there are a few segfault bugs that need to be addressed. […]
– https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg19597.html
You don’t have to actually subscribe - just click on the link Chris provided and you can see the list. There are only a few messages a day so it’s easy to keep on top of what’s going on. Last talk about a release was towards the end of last month, but it looks like there are still some outstanding issues to be addressed.
This comment is in the hopes that somebody new looks at this post so the number of views increments from the number of the beast.
I’m looking for a KiCad road map. It this posted, or for developer eye’s only? Also, I’m trying to find out what the plans are for OS support regarding Mac and Windows. I ask because I’m a linux user but teach intro to KiCad classes from time to time and the mac and windows builds are hit or miss. I can’t find good feedback on what builds are the most stable to point class attendees to. This would also help me determine when the best time is for getting a class together.
I’m using the build from about a month ago or so, and in my experience it has done the job well without issue. I was able to successfully create a schematic, custom library, custom schematic symbols and footprints, layout the board in pcbnew without issue and actually get PCB’s manufactured (as of right now I’ve had three different PCB’s manufactured using this version of kicad). I haven’t even tried the Mac version but it’s been about a year or so since I last tried. I would say windows is probably good to go though.
Although currently there still is no official release.
The plan of folks at CERN are here:
Generic work plans (in various states of progress and disuse) are here:
There was another site largely in disuse but I can’t find it now - anyway it’s probably forgotten.
Within the source code there is the file:
Documentation/development/road-map.md
Thanks, this helps a ton!
It seemed the Windows version was working as well as the Linux version, however the Mac version with build 6091 had more bugs than I could list in this email. It worked for the most part but many of the features did not. Things like save block, create using a template, read netlist, etc… makes it hard to persuade people to consider KiCad. Do get me wrong, a year ago building from source was the only solution, and the results were much less enjoyable… At least it looks like it is going in a better direction from a Mac point of view. Now I just need to see if there is a group that is focused on the Mac side. I contact Adam Wolf, yesterday, so I should check my email.
Thanks Andy, Im in the process of writing up a few bug reports. My intention was to find a stable release for both Mac and Windows that I could use for teaching a intro class. So far I’m still on the hunt.
In the Kicad blog on the test version of the new website Kicad EDA , the 2015 stable release has been announced (updated today), but I see NO indication of such in the dev list. Very strange.
What part of the test subdomain do you misunderstand? This is not finished yet.
Yes I do understand that. But posting completely bogus info is not the same as not being finished.
It is exactly the same in this case IMHO. Consider it as a draft. But I have removed the pages to avoid confusion.
That is not the official website; those are documents being prepared for the upcoming release. The site is public so that anyone who wants to help can check it without requesting passwords etc.