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[Kerusey Karyu <keruseykaryu@xxxxx>]

"Does it work?"

When Git library repository - I mean symbols, this is my only point of 
interest - was started few months ago there is one master branch, and 
four (If I'm wrong, sb corect me) registered contributors. Now we have 
eight and few people who have their own forks based on master branch.

Using Git search engine and searching for "kicad", system said: "We've 
found 312 repository results". Even if we filter out current pretty 
repos we still have got about two hundred. I have look into a couple of 
it and there is something interesting in it which may enlarge the 
current libraries resource. Can we acquire these people? Or unique 
symbols/footprints which they done? I think yes.
So, the answer for: "Does it work?" is "It works". Partially it works.

But there is one thing that must be done as soon as possible, before 
users throw on the creation of libraries. Clear and understandable by 
everyone library creating policy. Actually "we" don't have it, and 
symbols have different styles: various pin length (Is there any reason 
to keep 0.3" as default value?), various text size, sometimes 
disproportionation symbol body size. Awful (IMHO).
From a drawing point of view, footprints looks better because there is 
no room to any extravagance. The only unclear thing is footprint naming 
convention. SOT-23 or SOT23, SO8 or SO-8 or SOIC8 or SOIC-8-N. Opinions 
are divided, and the discussion on library-committers list was stuck in 
place.

ps. Sorry people, but I have to put my 5 cents in this discussion.

Kerusey Karyu