Hi, TL;DR yes, please place information about new libraries, their changes and plans on this to the KiCad website! But also keep information about changed documentation or localizations here.
Am 15.09.2017 um 04:01 schrieb Adam Wolf: > I really, really like the idea of having the libraries page on the > KiCad website itself. > > I have run into numerous people who do not understand that the github > libraries are "official". Plus, this means that *for whatever reason* > if the libraries move from github, the pages explaining the libraries > stay in the same space. And here the long version. I guess the KiCad project can improving themselves here still a lot. Even for me who is working with KiCad for now over two years it's sometimes not really clear where to find something or what has changed. It's fine to read a compact summarize of changes inside the binaries that are the core of KiCad. But from a view of a packager KiCad for Debian I need to invest a lot of time to collect all the various information that I need to do a good packaging of all the KiCad stuff! And this time is lost or not usable to do other things like testing before going live with a new set of packages. So, while Wayne is giving a overview of the bugfixes and modifications for new stable release I totally miss such a overview for the libraries, documentation and the internationalizing. This gives me the feeling KiCad isn't *one* project, but more a project with a individual subsets of projects that do not communicate as I expected this from a well working project. The Social Contract and the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) [1] are really short, but especially point 4 of the Social Contract helps me often to decide what to do if I'm unsure. > Our priorities are our users and free software The point is really small but holds all the sense of not only my doing, so I'd wished KiCad has a more global thinking about the project. KiCad aren't the applications only! And one more point on the libraries and GitHub, please keep in mind that probably a lot users don't may have direct access or only restricted access to GitHub or the Internet at all! Even in the middle of Europe or America there are places there is no fast Internet is available or people are sitting simply behind a firewall that is not allowing free access to GitHub or whatever website. All those user are depending on off line downloads and on new released versions. >From a users POV it's than hard to understand that libraries and there structure of them have changed a lot between two micro versions! [1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract -- Regards Carsten Schoenert _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
