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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Miron,

Welcome aboard, it's always great to have people keen to contribute.

I think you should be ok to take the lead on AD RF parts - I have addressed
the alias question in our other discussion, we'll walk through it when you
submit your first PR.

Cheers,
Oliver

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Miron Iancu <miancu@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello everybody.
>
> My name is Miron and I recently joined this group, trying to contribute
> best to my knowledge to KiCad.
> I am an electronics and Ham Radio enthusiast.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. How do you deal with component aliases ? For example, for a specific
> component like AD8307 do you maintain as aliases all the variants described
> in the datasheet like AD8307AN orAD8307ANZ or create different components ?
> Some of the differences are minor (like temperature ranges) but other
> differences directly affect design decisions (footprints);
>
> 2. To avoid duplicate efforts, is there anybody else that is working on
> the Analog Devices RF parts library ?
>
> Warmest regards and thank you.
>
> Miron
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