Hello, I think it would be nice to have some kind of guidelines and good practices for creating Kicad Libraries. I only created a few components so far but it would be great if everybody could help increasing the available libraries. And to have some consistency, it would be necessary to have guidelines. A small tutorial could also be great to help newbies create components to right way and tell them how to share them. I would be glad to be able to contribute if I can have a way to control the quality of my library before submitting it. Things I wondered about are naming conventions, how to organize pins (mapping of the chip or grouping in a way that make more sense), what about the power pins, ...
If someone is interested in this, I can do a list of all the questions I had, that can be a good start for creating guidelines. To ease contribution, can't we put all libraries on SVN, either the official kicad SVN or another one? I think there's already such a project started on sourceforge but without much contributions. There could be a submit section where everybody would have write access, then maintainers could push them in an official branch once they're sure they meet the guidelines. Well, that's a bit more complex than what I described but the main idea is to make it easy for anybody to contrinute by adding or improving components. David Bourgeois
