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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ben,

That's also an option, I hadn't considered that! Perhaps I was focused on
the GitHub-side solution too closely.

Wayne, do you want to weigh in here before I spend too much further effort
developing this? Could the libraries page be developed on the KiCad website
itself?

The structure could remain largely the same but the formatting would need
to change from Jekyll to Hugo.

Cheers,
Oliver

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Ben Hest <bombledmonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does this method provide an advantage over doing a similar thing using
> Hugo and putting the docs on the kicad-pcb.org website?
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website
>
>
> - Ben
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Oliver Walters <
> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> The conversation of how best to manage and distribute KiCad libraries has
>> been raging for a while now.
>>
>> Users looking to download or contribute to the libraries are currently
>> presented with a github landing page and some bland wiki pages (e.g. for
>> the KLC information).
>>
>> I have been working on a new-and-improved website system for the
>> following:
>>
>> * Clear information about the libraries
>> * A place to download the latest libraries
>> * Information on what is *in* the libraries
>> * Instructions on how to contribute to the libs
>> * Better presentation of the KLC
>>
>> This website will need to be updated periodically to present the latest
>> version of the libraries to the users. Also, if users are going to be
>> downloading library files then it could potentially use a lot of bandwidth.
>> Thirdly, the generated content should be scripted but statically hosted.
>>
>> The solution? GitHub pages! - https://pages.github.com/ -
>>
>> These are hosted from your github repository, and for e.g. ours would
>> have the URL kicad.github.io - this could be easily redirected from
>> kicad-lib.org/library (for example).
>>
>> GitHub pages use the jekyll toolset to generate static content.
>>
>> With a small amount of additional Python scripting I have created a
>> bare-bones example of what this might look like (locally hosted on my
>> laptop for now):
>>
>> Here are some screenshots! Ignore the colors and simple layout scheme,
>> this is currently just a framework.
>>
>> https://imgur.com/a/0GELG
>>
>> The main objectives of this project are:
>>
>> a) Present a more professional landing page for the libraries
>> b) Leverage GitHub Pages functionality
>> c) Improve KLC
>>
>> And, eventually:
>>
>> Provide a standardised way to separate the KiCad libraries from the KiCad
>> installer!
>>
>> Thoughts and comments appreciated!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Oliver
>>
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> --
>
> -Ben
>