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[Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for responding to that thread! I'm not sure if you read through the
whole thing, but what they want to do is create a separate repository
specifically for CPL parts that are 100% known good for certain
manufacturers/parts. This seemed pretty reasonable to me. I'm sure when
they have their ducks in a row it can be merged in to the kicad library
with that extra tag.


Jon

On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> Sorry to be a bit late to the party. Thanks for pointing out our library
> convention to them.
>
> I was thinking we could add a "CPL" tag in the description of the approved
> elements in our library. This way people would just have to enter this tag
> in the search box, and they will get all their parts from the different
> libraries at once. I see this beneficial as both of us. I don't see an
> extra tag in the description is being too polluting, and it should avoid
> duplicate parts while having a unified library.
>
> Before suggesting the idea to them, I would like to know if anyone has an
> objection.
>
> Regards,
>
> Carl
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I just wanted to point people to this thread about KiCad symbols and
>> footprints for the Octopart common parts library. I'm not sure if any of
>> you have seen this since it popped up a month or two ago, but I'll try to
>> summarize it quickly.
>>
>> Octopart wants to curate a list of parts that will make it easier for
>> people developing "internet of things" type devices. So basically people
>> are supposed to use these parts and assembly houses will stock tons of them
>> and all of the major PCB EDA programs will have a symbol and footprint
>> library for all of them. Should make it nice and easy to design with!
>>
>> Here is the thread they created for the KiCad library:
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/a/octopart.com/forum/#!topic/common-parts-library-community/zsVVG_VBpeY
>>
>> The head guy from octopart created a new github repo for this. I was
>> thinking it would be really awesome if instead this could all be integrated
>> in to the default KiCad library so people don't even need to download an
>> extra lib!
>>
>> Carl, do you want to try and communicate with them to try and work
>> something out?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jon Neal
>>
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