Re: gEDA-user: Creating bill of materials?

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Hudak wrote:

> My expectation (hope, guess?) was with an effort that is open source, users
> would contribute their symbols to the library, and the symbol library would
> be huge.  I didn't find that reality.  I assumed this because users would
> 'giveback' to the community.  Clearly some have done this. I plan on doing
> this (if I continue down this path).  So why hasen't the component mfgs been
> inclined to develop and contribute symbols? 

What is mfgs?


> Why hasen't the users contributed more?

Some time before 2005 there have been religious wars on how good 
symbols look like and what attributes they should contain. Specifically,
there was a dissent about the presence or absence of footprint attributes.
As a result, the default lib got populated with footprint-less symbols. 
User contribution was not encouraged. IIRC, mno additions have been accepted
since 2005. In parallel, gedasymbols.org was established with separate
sections for every contributor. 

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