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

Adam,

Both are really good points.

Here's what I propose:

*Short Term:*

Move the library information / license / KLC / contributing information to
the website. This will also include links to download library releases
(from github)

*Medium Term:*

Provide downloads of individual libraries, which will be hosted (??
somewhere ?? )

*Long Term:*

Full description of library elements, including image previews / metadata /
etc. This will be searchable.

Actual library data remains on GitHub, obviously.

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I really, really like the idea of having the libraries page on the
> KiCad website itself.
>
> I have run into numerous people who do not understand that the github
> libraries are "official".  Plus, this means that *for whatever reason*
> if the libraries move from github, the pages explaining the libraries
> stay in the same space.
>
> Adam Wolf
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Oliver Walters
> <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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