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[Ian McInerney <mcianster@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was trying to avoid creating long tags, and since our current tags seem
to be distributed more on the short side (and since in the new GitLab
interface the tags are visible next to the issue name, the longer the tag
the more UI space it takes up) I was trying to keep them short. (and these
new ones would be on the upper end of the distribution of tag length, see
below chart :) ).

I guess the difference between sym-editor and symbol-editor is only 3
characters though...

[image: KiCadTagLength.png]

-Ian

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 8:57 PM Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FWIW, in the code footprint is often abbreviated as fp, but symbol is
> rarely abbreviated.
>
> On 26 Nov 2019, at 20:45, Ian McInerney <mcianster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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Ian McInerney
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