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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 4, 2013 12:58 PM, "Dick Hollenbeck" <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Oct 4, 2013 12:08 PM, "Carl Poirier" <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > I am also in favor of keeping simpler library names. The latest dialog
works well on my side, pasting the table from the README.md as well. Great
work there.
> >
> > I'll try in the next few days to get a README.md generated for each
pretty library.
> >
> > As for copying the whole table at once instead of going into each
repository, would having an empty repository containing only a README.md be
a good idea?
> >

Your's is a good suggestion too.  It would be a mistake to think that I
need to approve, or any developer needs to approve good ideas pertaining to
footprint management.

The footprint management folks can elect their own leader.  I will not be
involved.




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> For the 'official' libraries you converted, I committed
template/fp-lib-table.for-github. which you can help maintain.
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> I added no cmake install support for it yet.  But its in the source repo
so it won't get lost on mailing list.
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> I doubt if all our official libraries warrant the term 'official'.  Some
seem highly personal.  Grouping and naming seem chaotic.
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> I don't see leadership in this work, sorry.
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> Opportunity for someone I think.
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> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> >> >> Short term our best options are to encourage preparation of a
publishing guideline.  That
> >> >> document would talk about what constitutes a good library,
> >> >> and how to prepare the
> >> >> README.md file, and maybe even offer a wxPython script to prepare
it automatically.
> >>
> >> See
> >>
> >>    https://github.com/liftoff-sr/pretty_footprints
> >>
> >> for a quick initial attempt I made at manual preparation this morning.
 It allows:
> >>
> >> 1) quick copying and pasting of (fp_lib_table) element from HTML view
at bottom of page
> >> into a blank row of DIALOG_FP_LIB_TABLE.
> >>
> >> 2) has hyperlinks to every *raw* format pretty file, (which when
someone adds (module)
> >> s-expr clipboard pasting support to module editor, could be copied and
pasted from
> >> webbrowser into module editor.)  This offers yet another way just to
grab one footprint
> >> without bringing in the whole library as in 1) above.
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