Re: gEDA-user: Push to geda's git directly: promote open hardware development by donating your symbols/footprints

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 12:03 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> We all know that creating symbols and footprints are pretty the boring
> part of the electronic design.
> 

Yes.

> So can we all focus on putting all our symbols and footprints into the
> main geda-symbols tarball ?

Please note: Quality is much more important for footprints and symbols
than quantity. So there are some people on this list which use/trust
only their own symbols/footprints.

In my opinion quality at gedasymbols.org is not really good now -- some
people still use it to backup all their stuff including logfiles.

So we have to do an audit for each symbol. An other problem is, that it
is not very good defined which attributes symbols should contain.

And an important task is to find very fine names for footprint and
symbols -- for me this is the most difficult problem. Names should
identify and describe the content to make it possible to access it for
others -- still an textual description may be needed.

I agree that a fine collection of symbols and footprints would be great.
But putting all in a big basked is not good.

Best regards

Stefan Salewski




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