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Message #11627
Re: github roll-out plans
What, no google?
Github has search itself?
Also, or alternatively, footprint people could submit a URL to an indexer that we control,
say a node.js script someplace, and then that script could publish the results on an HTML
page that we control.
On 11/08/2013 02:24 PM, Carl Poirier wrote:
>
> I'm experimenting with Google Search and for now the GitHub repos under my name don't seem
> to get indexed at all. I've searched in many different ways, including the most obvious
> ones. I'll see how we can get something out of it.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> Switching from openssl thread to a new one:
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>
> >
> > With GITHUB_PLUGIN now available to ~ 90% of the KiCad user base (omitting OSX?), I now
> > look forward to folks putting footprint libraries on github and bragging about them,
> under
> > the leadership of Carl Poirier, who has scripts and know how on how to publish them so
> > that they can be "installed" by a single copy and paste through a webbrowser into the
> > fp-lib-table editor.
> >
> > I look forward to that affecting my productivity in a positive way, so that I can spend
> > less time looking for footprints, and more time making boards.
> >
> > I would look forward to collaboration on sharing the "pretty on github publishing" know
> > how on kicad-pcb.org <http://kicad-pcb.org> in the form of documentation, and a link
> to that write up making it
> > to the kicad-user mailing list. Because I think this would spur more sharing, and yet
> > again help my productivity in making boards.
> >
> > Question: does google index any of the github content, or is it simply too much? If
> yes,
> > then this is yet another way to find KiCad specific footprints rapidly after this
> > publishing gets some legs. You should be able to google for
> >
> > kicad_mod <package_name>
> >
> > and turn up something.
> >
>
>
> I think it would be great if we could gather up some prizes (cash, goodies) of some kind,
> and award them to a "best footprint library maintainer" every six months or so.
>
> OK, it's out there, now I hope the community can run with this stuff, OK !?
>
> (I've got programming work and board work to do. No time for library management, and I
> don't have the expertise either.)
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