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Re: Contributing footprints

 

Hi Carl, I hoped that you would say this, emailing everything to you
makes no sense in my opinion. Please take your time, I will take a look
at the convention tonight and I'm pretty sure that there will be
changes. And: Thanks!
Simon

On 08/05/2014 05:00 AM, Carl Poirier wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> I prefer the git pull request method. The time it takes for them
> getting approved depends on how much free time I have, as I am pretty
> much alone in approving them. I will shortly have a look at your other
> one.
>
> FYI, the procedure is written here
> <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/blob/master/How_To_Contribute.txt>.
> And please make sure to follow the convention
> <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/blob/master/KiCad_Library_Convention.txt>,
> as I cannot take the time to refactor every footprint I am sent.
>
> Regards,
>
> Carl
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/04/2014 11:15 AM, Simon Gansen wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I'm new to KiCad developement and wondering what is the
>     designated way
>     > to contribute package footprints.
>     >
>     > Once I've created a pull request at github for a schematic symbol to
>     > github.com/KiCad/kicad-library
>     <http://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library>, which was merged a few
>     hour later.
>     >
>     > Now I've created a pull request to
>     github.com/KiCad/SMD_Packages.pretty
>     <http://github.com/KiCad/SMD_Packages.pretty>
>     > and there are neither comments nor a merge after 9 days. Is this
>     github
>     > getting merged onto the bzr repository, or am I supposed to
>     contribute
>     > using bzr? Or is there even an other way?
>
>
>     I just email the footprints to Carl, and be sure to say thank you.
>
>     He's made more progress in 5 months than the previous 5 years.
>
>
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