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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/08/2013 03:51 PM, Carl Poirier wrote:
> I meant get something out of Google. Without waiting for 10 months.


Its possible there's simply a delay.  But here's another theory:


What if google's policy is to *not ever* index personal github repos, on the theory it is
too much, too fleeting, and that a personal repo is often a fork of a project repo?  Then
you will wait forever.  There are about 2 million repos on github.

Isn't a "project" repo, on the other hand, one that is registered with github as a project?

I am wondering if they only index project repos as a policy decision.  It would make sense
to me.



> 
> Search for "github kicad Resistor_SMD2010_ReflowWave_RevA_Date21Jun2010.kicad_mod", you'll
> see it doesn't get you anything,
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     At github there are personal repos and project repos.  If I google for
> 
>     "github kicad base_screen.cpp"
> 
>     I find the file base_screen.cpp, which is from a 10 month old copy of our launchpad repo
>     lodged in a *project* repo.
> 
> 
>     There is hope, don't know if its the personal vs. project repo that factors into the
>     google policy or not.
> 
>     BTW, here are the mug shots of the project owners:
> 
>     https://github.com/KiCAD?tab=members
> 
>     All two of them.
> 
>     Thanks for your time Carl.  You will be hearing a lot more of that from others in the near
>     future.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     >
>     > 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>
>     > <mailto:dick@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Switching from openssl thread to a new one:
>     >
>     >
>     >     >
>     >     > 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> <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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