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

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 25, 2009, at 5:08 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote:

> 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.

It isn't just that. *Any* symbol from a library is most likely wrong  
for a particular purpose. There are million of components on the  
market: we're never going to have "correct" symbols for more than a  
tiny fraction of them. Especially as "correct" depends on *your*  
design flow.

Anybody who blindly uses a library symbol in any EDA tool without  
checking and tweaking as needed is asking for trouble.

What we can have is easily customizable base symbols. And it would  
help if gschem better supported the import and customization of  
project symbols.

>
> 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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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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