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

Diego,

This has already been done :)

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Diego Herranz <herranzdiego@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi, Oliver.
>
> Thanks a lot for your work on this. I think it's gonna be really useful,
> especially for newbies, but also for experienced users.
>
> Regarding the new repo to hold every footprint, I think it's the way to
> go, it's impossible to follow the progress and updates on a thousand repos.
> Should we call it kicad-footprints? To follow the same format as
> kicad-symbols.
>
> On another thread I said
> "Thinking of naming, should we use "kicad-packages3d" to keep the same
> format (kicad-symbols)"
> Which I think still applies?
>
> If you agree, can we rename both packages3d and footprints to
> kicad-packages3d and kicad-footprints before it's too late? Or
> kicad-symbols to symbols but I guess that's more difficult now?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On 17 Sep 2017 6:00 am, "Oliver Walters" <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I have also created a FOOTPRINTS repository at -
>> https://github.com/KiCad/footprints
>>
>> The intent is to have ALL the .pretty repos merged here, to combat the
>> ever decreasing maintainability of the libraries.
>>
>> For now, it contains each .pretty repository as an individual submodule.
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Oliver Walters <
>> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hugo can use external JSON data during the build step, so I've worked
>>> out how to list the GitHub library releases directly onto the downloads
>>> page!
>>>
>>> Some progress images here:
>>>
>>> https://imgur.com/a/2V6E3
>>>
>>> Most of the framework is in place now. I need some assistance with
>>> wording for /discover/libraries but other than that, almost ready to go :)
>>>
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Oliver Walters <
>>> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some more progress: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/1622
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Oliver Walters <
>>>> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have worked out how to transfer the KLC page to the Hugo templating
>>>>> system (it is SO much harder to use than Jenkins :p)
>>>>>
>>>>> Example:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://i.imgur.com/4kZnvOA.png
>>>>>
>>>>> The libraries information is also moved across, but that's just static
>>>>> content so it's much simpler.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll keep you posted.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:41 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <
>>>>> stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 9/14/2017 8:54 PM, Oliver Walters 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 libraries page could be developed on KiCad website although I'm
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> sure how that would work.  I am comfortable with either solution.
>>>>>> Pick
>>>>>> which ever solution is the most comfortable for you.  Since you are
>>>>>> doing the work, you should choose the implementation unless someone
>>>>>> else
>>>>>> is willing step up and help out.  Even the basic overview that you
>>>>>> presented is far better than anything we have at the moment.  We can
>>>>>> always add more features later.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > 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
>>>>>> > <mailto: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
>>>>>> >     <http://kicad-pcb.org>
>>>>>> >     website? https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website
>>>>>> >     <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >     - Ben
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >     On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Oliver Walters
>>>>>> >     <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> >     <mailto: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 <http://kicad.github.io>
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> >         this could be easily redirected from kicad-lib.org/library
>>>>>> >         <http://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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