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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/26/19 2:20 PM, Ian McInerney wrote:
> I would like to introduce two new official tags on the bug tracker to
> track issues relating to the symbol and footprint editors. Currently we
> are tracking these under the eeschema and pcbnew tags respectively, but
> those are growing quite large (pcbnew has over 500). I think tracking
> these two tools under separate tags would help, since then we can more
> easily locate bugs/wishlist items for them.
> 
> I am thinking the footprint editor should be *modedit*, and my initial
> proposal for the symbol editor is *libedit*. I don't really like libedit
> though, since technically footprints also live in a library (but the
> code calls it libedit). Anyone have a better suggestion for its tag?

How about "symedit", short for symbol editor.  Honestly I would prefer
"fpedit" over "modedit" since we really don't refer to footprints as
modules any more.

> 
> Once we sort out the tag, and if no one objects, I will go through and
> update the tags after the GitLab transition is done.
> 
> -Ian
> 
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