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[Ian McInerney <mcianster@xxxxxxxxx>]

I do like fp-editor and sym-editor better. Note that for consistency with
the other multiword tags for GitLab, I will use a hyphen.

-Ian

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, 8:07 p.m. Jeff Young, <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would go with either historic (modedit and libedit) or current
> (fp_editor and symbol_editor).
>
> Mixing the two would be particularly obscure.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
>
> > On 26 Nov 2019, at 19:40, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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