Bert Timmerman wrote:

> <shameless plug>
> Advocating for a git-based system with capabilities like
> http://github.com here.
> Github is claiming to offer "social code hosting", let's offer "social
> gEDA hosting".
> </shameless plug>
> 
> Who is going to implement/maintain all this content/information then ?
> 
> We, the gEDA (user) community :)  so let's make things easy for
> ourselves from the start.

Sounds good, esp. along with html generated automatically for info 
sharing on projects across several physical locations.
> 
> Issue #1: a method for mapping data from known physical packages into
> the gEDA workflow.
> Possible solution: implementation based on Levente's work (it works for
> him, doesn't it ?). 
> By who: the gEDA-dev community.

I like the idea of makefiles, but we'd need to document it well in the 
context of gschem and pcb and gnetlist if we made it the default as gEDA 
distributed way to do it.


> 
> Issue #2: content (mapping data).
> Possible solution: contribution of meta-data from only projects at hand.
> This is to keep it lean, and free of stuff _nobody_ uses. Only add
> information if you need it now and in the foreseeable future (do we have
> all symbols and footprints of all vacuum tubes ?).
> By who: the gEDA-user community.
>

I like this concept -- being lean and project driven rather than drawing 
from a huge library.


John G


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