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[Phinitnan Chanasabaeng <phinitnan_c@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

hauptmech, thank you for the doc, it is very useful. I only have
ipc-7251,7351 here.  I'll read through it and see what I can apply to the
library.
I also plan to develop such calculator or at least a better footprint
viewer for kicad. This viewer will be very useful for Cvpcb & Pcbnew.

fabrizio, I would like to create a new library set for kicad. What I'm
doing now is defining standard, guideline, etc (drawing style, naming
scheme, etc)  for the library.
This works is due to, in fact, I (almost) never use current kicad library
which is, IMHO, lack of consistency, standard, not quite beautiful.
I use my own set of library (and I think many do). I think we should share
the library so we can improve library usability & variety.
I thought about improving the current library. But it can break any existed
design. Therefore starting a new library is better choice for me.

Simon, good idea. With user submitted libs, kicad library dev (could be
kicad-library-committer) can review if the library meet the defined
standard and merge to the main branch. One problem that came to my mind,
where will the submitted libs store?

Tony


>
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Simon Schubert <2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Tony,
>
> On 11/03/2011 10:09 AM, Phinitnan Chanasabaeng wrote:
> > I'm current working on a new set of standard & guideline for kicad's
> > library.
> > This work will be based on previous discussions and any publicly
> > available standard.
> > I'll push it to launchpad
> > at lp:~kicad-lib-committers/+junk/library-experiment a long with
> > examples as soon as it is ready.
> >
> > I think with the new library, quality check should be taken more
> > seriously to ensure compatibility and correctness.
> > Please leave me any addition comment & suggestion so I can include it
> > in the guideline.
>
> I was thinking of adding an easy (i.e. integrated) way to kicad to
> submit + download library components, possibly with a way to rate the
> quality and add feedback.  Nothing over-engineered tho.
>
> User-submitted components wouldn't directly go into the "official" kicad
> library, but could maybe easily pulled over, once quality standards are
> met.
>
> What do people think?
>
> cheers
>   simon
>
>
>