kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We should not be surprised that SEO expertise plays a role in the life of a kicad user also.

There's much to learn here, even as encouraging as Brian's posting is.

And believe me, I am very encouraged and relieved.  Just hungry for more knowledge.






Sent from my Galaxy S®III

-------- Original message --------
From: Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx> 
Date: 11/09/2013  6:03 AM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
Cc: Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>,KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] github roll-out plans 
 
Search for valvers-pcb

Fifth result is the github repository I setup as a test when the Github plugin was coming to fruition. So I think github indexing works fine for personal repo's.

The key is to get something searchable that is reasonably unique. Everything before this is old stuff that I must tidy up.

Searching for kicad_mod tyco multilock also returns the correct result (Top answer this time as it's so specific) so there's mileage in Google in being the library browser of choice.

Best Regards,

Brian.


On 9 November 2013 04:31, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.)
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     _______________________________________________
>     >     Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>     >     Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     >     <mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>     >     Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>     >     More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>     >
>     >
>
>


_______________________________________________
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp