Thanks for the info Dick. Carl, I could give you some help then. At least I could help you validating and creating components that I already create for my self.
I will need some help at least in the beginning to learn how to work well with github since git is a new field for me since I've always used SVN. Anyway, if there is anyway I can star helping you guys let me know and I will do as much as I can with the time I have left :). 2014-03-17 21:10 GMT+01:00 Carl Poirier <[email protected]>: > > > Is anyone working on doing some sort of collaborative library where > people could create components and by users votes have the components > validate them-selves? > > I know a little about the github "official" library for KiCad > > Few of us (like me) work on libraries on a voluntary basis. So much as > those who volunteer for any other good cause. > > Basically, contributors started to open merge requests to one or more > GitHub libraries. We then validate as much as we can and pull the merge > request. That's how you would do to contribute some corrections to a > library and/or commit a new one. > > For now, the merge requests can be handled by one person but I suspect > this will change soon, once the GitHub plugin gets more users. We will then > need more people to validate the footprints and libraries. > > Carl > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 03/17/2014 01:35 PM, Alejandro Méndez A. wrote: >> > Ok, >> > >> > I will do that in a new post with another title so it is easy to find. >> > >> > I could make a video since I already have a youtube channel with plenty >> of visits but I'm >> > not a native English speaker so I think it might be better just to keep >> the written version :) >> > >> > In fact I've been doing a tutorial for Kicad in Spanish but I haven't >> finished since the >> > last changes for KiCad have changed a lot in PCBNew and Library and I'm >> thinking of >> > redoing the first ones with a newer version of KiCad including the new >> features of PCBNew. >> > Should I keep waiting a little longer for more big changes? >> > >> > I'll try to make a useful post for the environment variables and how to >> use them to be >> > able to work with Kicad seamlessly in different platforms. >> > >> > Last but not least. I think there is already work being done with the >> libraries but I >> > think that it would be really good for KiCad to have a very large >> contributive components >> > library since most "hobbiest" users don't wan't to make their own parts >> and people like me >> > that are freelance or work for small companies will use already created >> components when >> > they come from a "respectable" source. I spend a lot of time creating >> my own footprints >> > and I've found that the best library out there in my opinion is this >> one: >> > http://smisioto.no-ip.org/elettronica/kicad/kicad-en.htm . Is anyone >> working on doing some >> > sort of collaborative library where people could create components and >> by users votes have >> > the components validate them-selves? >> > I know a little about the github "official" library for KiCad and also >> I know of a web >> > that is doing that for three differents packages (KiCad included), it >> is called >> > CircuitHub. It is a great idea but they try to cover too much, at least >> for now, in my >> > opinion. You can create the components in their web, et cetera. I've >> tried it and I've >> > even talked to one of the founders for support, since there are many >> things that don't >> > work right yet and they make it basically unusable at the end. They've >> told me they are >> > working on it, but it have passed at least 6 months and they have added >> other things but >> > the component creation part is still not working right. To the point of >> not even been able >> > to create new schematic symbols. >> > >> > Anyway, I just want to know if there is somebody working in an idea >> like that but just to >> > keep the components, not creating them in the web since I could help >> creating components >> > and a system to let people create components to share, following a >> common criteria which >> > could give some security to the people wanting to use them. >> > >> > BTW, sorry for the long boring reply. >> >> >> For any task requiring large man-hours to succeed, there typically needs >> to be incentive >> or economic sustenance. Simply voting does not cut it. You could ask 50 >> people to dig >> ditches, and tell them you will vote on who does the best job, and they >> will walk away >> with a curious look on their faces. >> >> The guys maintaining the github repo are picking up steam and are >> changing and adding >> footprints and parts fairly regularly now. This is an economic miracle. >> There is no >> economic explanation for it. I vote "yeah" for Carl and the gang! >> >> You get what you pay for, or you get what you do, anything after that is >> an economic >> miracle (or a free lunch, but they don't exist, because in English it is >> well known that >> "there is no free lunch"). >> >> If you want to learn more, join the ~kicad-library-committers team, but >> what you want is >> not happening here on this mailing list and I'll have nothing additional >> to do with it >> (other than having previously recruited Carl and having written the >> github plugin.) >> >> Now Carl and company are the engine of improvement. Name names, and give >> thanks. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > -- アレッカス
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