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[Ian McInerney <mcianster@xxxxxxxxx>]

The other multi-word tags in the components are "pcb-calculator" and
"3d-viewer" (and we also have "feature-request"). I was using a hyphen
because using the longer words "symboleditor" didn't look as good as saying
"symbol-editor." I did the hyphen on the fp-editor one for symmetry.

I will use "fp-editor" and "symbol-editor" as the new tags.

-Ian

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 1:51 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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