Hello I'm just a lurker and still not started to contribute, but I have some ideas:
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay: I see technological and educational institutions as potential contributors at this stage of development. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay developed the Oscad package and showed a very good attitude towards collaboration, I think they must go to FOSSDEM and talk very seriously about a long term collaboration plan. - Improving usability: I think UX should be taken under a very serious objective analysis by an independent group to make KiCad more popular, OpenUsability.org seems a good candidate. Old schoolers and some developers might resist to change, but KiCad's UX is one of the things that still make people uncomfortable to use it. - QUCS: It seems a great project with innovation in their core ideas. I think there should be some collaboration. It seems there are issues about SPICE models being copyrighted so they have to use script downloaders, this would make a future KiCad library with all components available in SPICE/Verilog-A a very hard challenge until solved. - Organization: Are there clear roles in KiCad? Wayne is the project manager and there are translators, that's all I know. Are there main or specific roles in the team? What about a fast voting process to take decisions? Are there a formal meritocratic core team? - Wiki: What about using a wiki for documentation? It provides an easier to use environment, it can be customized for i18n and even parsing KiCad files to show them as SVG if someone writes a plugin for it. The documentation could be exported and shipped in each release, too. Relevant links: https://forum.kicad.info/t/simulating-kicad-schematics-in-spice/ http://mithatkonar.com/wiki/doku.php/kicad/kicad_spice_quick_guide http://esim.fossee.in https://github.com/Oscad http://www.iitb.ac.in Kind regards. On Tuesday, November 3, 2015, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I reported the bug #1511552 and suggested to provide a patch. I'd like to > hear > your suggestions and objections to what I was to going to do. > > In short (details in the bug report): > > In EESchema, it is hard to create a schema that can be used simultaneously > for > Spice simulations and Pcb creations. For instance, because the pin order of > the components for Pcb and for Spice needs to be different. The following > two > patches have resolved some of the problems: #706558, #743027. But there are > still other problems that persist: > > 1. Prefixes of component references in schemas follow different conventions > (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_designator) than those > required > by Spice. > > 2. Component values (like 3k3 or 2M7) commonly used in schemas don't work > in > Spice. > > 3. The default KiCad component libraries are not prepared for Spice > simulations. Which is a problem for a KiCad newbie who a) does not have his > own modified libraries b) isn't even aware of the need of such library > modifications and wonders why the simulation doesn't work (like me some > days > ago). > > So I'm proposing to create another patch in the line of the two already > accepted patches, as described in the bug report. I'm aware that the > current > Spice netlist exporter is poorly designed and that the two already accepted > patches are kind of hack. And my patch will be no different. But I don't > have > time and energy to implement a full-featured Spice support. > > Please, read my intended patch design in > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1511552/comments/2, and provide > comments > and suggestions. So that I don't spend my time on an improvement of a > feature > that will be rejected then. It's possible to implement only some of the > suggested points, and leave the rest for a post-processing. > > Thank you, > Martin. > ______________________________________________________________________ > Vystup z řady a zřiď si taky originální email! @bigboss.cz, @dablik.cz, @ > potvurka.cz, @tajny.cz... zdarma na http://email.sms.cz > COMDOM Antispam - www.comdomsoft.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] <javascript:;> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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