KiCAD status/roadmap and other FOSDEM talks - Page 1
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author: kasbah
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 08, 2017, 04:47:34 pm
content: A video recording of Wayne's presentation about KiCAD status and roadmapis up already.More and more recordings of the other FOSS EDA talks are appearing as well (including my two) and can be accessed fromthe devroom schedule.

author: ElektroQuark
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 09, 2017, 11:38:35 am
content: And who are you?

author: MarkS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 13, 2017, 07:20:58 pm
content: No v6 roadmap or stable release 5 available or even mentioned on the site. What am I missing?

author: awallin
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 03:43:04 pm
content: Quote from: MarkS on February 13, 2017, 07:20:58 pmThis might be the most uptodate roadmap:http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-doxygen/ws/Documentation/doxygen/html/v5_road_map.htmlbut there's also a similar page on ohwr (maybe those are CERN-specific focus areas):http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki/workpackagesthe 5.0 schedule is more or less unknown, a few months maybe, ask again in the summer

author: Markus Enginethrust
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 06:50:24 pm
content: Love the cheering reaction from the crowd after announcing the "spread footprints on first load of netlist" feature.

author: MarkS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 07:17:06 pm
content: Quote from: awallin on February 14, 2017, 03:43:04 pmHe mentioned in the video that stable release 5 is available for download and the roadmap for version 6 in on the site. Neither are true. Stable release 4 is available and the roadmap for version 5 in on the site.

author: krho
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 08:44:32 pm
content: AFAIR he said that the test version of 5.0 will be out soon. And the final sometime in the summer then he quickly added you know how open source is.

author: MarkS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 08:51:02 pm
content: Quote from: krho on February 14, 2017, 08:44:32 pmYes, you are correct. I had to watch it again.

author: kasbah
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2017, 08:59:25 pm
content: Quote from: EdoNork on February 09, 2017, 11:38:35 amI am Kaspar and mine were the last two talks.

author: donotdespisethesnake
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 15, 2017, 12:42:25 pm
content: Based on the v4 development cycle, I estimate that a stable release 5 will be around Oct 2017 (actual production release, not a release candidate or beta). This is based on a 9 month period from when a feature freeze is declared (v5 is not frozen yet, but promised soon).There are some features from the v5 roadmap that are being bumped to v6. I expect v6 to be sometime in 2019.

author: bitwelder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2017, 12:00:15 pm
content: Quote from: kasbah on February 08, 2017, 04:47:34 pmAlso the slides of the presentation are available.In the FOSDEM event page:https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/kicad_status/click on the "Attachments (audio)" linkNever trust the autorouter... and neither trust URL descriptions

author: richardlawson1489
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2017, 10:49:45 am
content: As someone has already mentioned here, the current stable version 5 release of KiCad and road map for the version 6 release of KiCad.

author: donotdespisethesnake
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2017, 11:35:15 am
content: Quote from: richardlawson1489 on March 17, 2017, 10:49:45 amAre you some sort of spam bot gone wrong? Your posts appear to be random and often don't make any sense.The current stable release is version 4, anyway. Version 5 will be the next release.

author: tycz
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2017, 03:36:57 pm
content: Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on March 17, 2017, 11:35:15 amDefinitely a bot. There's also another one called technotronix. I don't know why they are here though...