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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Would it be to controversial to just call it fpedit and symedit? I am not
sure I understand why you wanted the hyphen, but I didn't really follow the
discussion to much in this thread. What are the other multiword tags in
gitlab?

On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 12:13, Ian McInerney <mcianster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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