If Carl need help validating libraries, I can help too since I am retired and have been responsible for library validation for over 25 years, so I know the gotchas of the job. I like the idea of control with github or anything like it.
Jean-Paul (AC9GH) On Mar 17, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Alejandro Méndez A. <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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