This should be a wiki page, and the more time consuming steps should be a wiki pave as well. How amazing (and helpful) would that be? On Feb 4, 2014 3:57 AM, "Brian Sidebotham" <brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I suspect it's all just a documentation issue too as someone else > suggested because it's so easy to branch the code and generate a patch > using Bazaar. > > Perhaps the best place for anyone who has decided Bazaar is dead (it > works for me by the way!) and therefore cannot contribute (and > particularly git fans) is to look at the Inkscape wiki: > http://www.inkscape.org/en/develop/getting-started/ > > Or, you can just... > > bzr checkout lp:kicad > bzr branch ./kicad ./kicad-feature > > ..hack, hack, hack kicad-feature, you can commit to ./kicad-feature as > many times as you like and merge in the tip any time you want to keep > conflicts to a minimum... > > cd kicad && bzr up && cd .. > cd kicad-feature && bzr merge ../kicad > bzr diff > my-feature.patch > > It's really that easy to start contributing (I've left out the build > and debug steps which are several orders of magnitude more time > consuming). You don't need to fork, pull, push or anything like that. > > I agree, we should probably have a wiki page similar to Inkscape's, > but Inkscape has many more contributors compared to KiCad. PCB design > is less popular than vector graphics in general. > > Best Regards, Brian. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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