Then you should have come by and discussed the matter on Github. The issues and pull requests about the diodes had been open for a while now and open for comments. To get updates in time about the changes proposed, I suggest you watch this repository <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library>.
If you have suggestions for the next similar situation, I'm listening. On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Garth Corral <gcor...@abode.com> wrote: > I don’t object to what you’re doing, just how it’s being done. You don’t > think this case is just a little bit special? Last time things were pretty > obviously broken with the change, in this case they’re not. You’ve swapped > out a symbol for something that’s basically the same except, oh, by the > way, all your diodes are reversed. Am I misunderstanding this change? Is > this not true? > > Garth > > On Apr 24, 2015, at 4:34 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > KiCad's libraries were filled without any rules throughout time. All these > changes are necessary to have something consistent. Kerusey Karyu warned > people one month ago on the mailing list > <https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg17476.html> that we were > in the process of moving things around. No one complained. Now why when we > take action people wake up all of a sudden? > > The sooner we get things straight, the better it is. If we wait too much, > it will be too late. Before issuing the stable release sounds like an > appropriate moment to land the disruptive changes. > > BTW, I'm about to eradicate the special.lib library, as planned for now > over one month <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/153>, a > great initiative taken by Kerusey. > > Regards, > > Carl > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Garth Corral <gcor...@abode.com> wrote: > >> >> This plan to deprecate the old diode type seems… uh... poorly thought >> out. Yanking these out from under everyone and every project in exiistence >> and then sending out a message that says, “hey, guess what I did?” doesn’t >> seem like the best way to handle this. It is most certainly not the way to >> win converts to kicad. >> >> >> Garth >> >> >> On Apr 24, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirie...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Thiadmer, your proposal would require to duplicate every .pretty >> repository for every stable release. And I believe the schematics won't >> change because of the cache. >> >> Another solution would be to modify the github plugin to fetch a branch >> in particular instead of the master. Then, we could create one branch in >> each .pretty repository that would remain in the state at the time of the >> stable release. >> >> That, or we ship the stable release with local .pretty repositories as >> well. >> >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Thiadmer Riemersma < >> thiadmer.riemer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> For the stable release, I would vote for backward compatibility: have >>> "deprecated" libraries with the diodes as they are right now (footprints + >>> symbols), plus "standards-compliant" libraries with the cathode at pin 1 >>> and the anode at pin 2. It would not be good if old schematics change just >>> because they are loaded in a new version of KiCad. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirie...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Maybe this could be implemented for the stable release. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Bob Gustafson <bob...@rcn.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Sounds professional. >>>>> >>>>> Bob G >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 04/24/2015 12:24 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: >>>>> >>>>> For future things like this, what do people think of a webview that >>>>> pops up on startup after checking a site for alerts? >>>>> On Apr 24, 2015 12:14 PM, "Carl Poirier" <carl.poirie...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> All installations need a local kicad-library, not just OS X. They are >>>>>> all in the same situation. The next OS X nightly will be good if you pull >>>>>> the latest kicad-libary for the build. >>>>>> >>>>>> Kerusey Karyu will announce the change on the users group on Yahoo >>>>>> to warn people. If anyone has an account and wants to forward my message >>>>>> before he does, feel free to do so. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Adam Wolf < >>>>>> adamw...@feelslikeburning.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hmm. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So the OSX builds use Github by default for footprints, and have >>>>>>> symbols "baked in" at build time. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Every OS X nightly build is going to produce bad boards, and there's >>>>>>> no way to tell users to update or inform them about this change through >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> program at all. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I really wish I would have known about this earlier. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Adam Wolf >>>>>>> Cofounder and Engineer >>>>>>> Wayne and Layne >>>>>>> On Apr 24, 2015 11:42 AM, "Carl Poirier" <carl.poirie...@gmail.com> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi folks, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This is simply to warn you that all diodes in KiCad's libraries >>>>>>>> have seen their pin numbers swapped. This is to be in line with most >>>>>>>> other >>>>>>>> software and the IPC standard as well, which states that cathode >>>>>>>> should be >>>>>>>> pin 1. This work is courtesy of the newest librarian, Ricardo Crudo. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If you are using Github libraries directly, the only thing you >>>>>>>> will have left to do is update your schematic libraries to the latest >>>>>>>> revision of https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library before >>>>>>>> continuing your work. If you have a local copy of the footprint >>>>>>>> repositories, then when you are ready you will be able to pull the >>>>>>>> changes >>>>>>>> for both the schematic libraries and the affected footprint libraries: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 1. Diodes_SMD.pretty <https://github.com/KiCad/Diodes_SMD.pretty> >>>>>>>> 2. Diodes_ThroughHole.pretty >>>>>>>> <https://github.com/KiCad/Diodes_ThroughHole.pretty> >>>>>>>> 3. 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