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Subject: Re: [geda-user] About reinventing the wheel, and how to avoid it
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On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 12, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:08 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sep 12, 2015, at 12:55 PM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 09/12/2015 11:53 AM, John Doty wrote:
>>>>> On Sep 12, 2015, at 10:25 AM, John Griessen<john AT ecosensory DOT com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 09/12/2015 10:51 AM, John Doty wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Test cases are important, but I don’t think it’s necessary to have add-on modules maintained with the core sources in order to test them together.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why?  Roland made a clear case for that.
>>>>> Successful projects like Python keep core and add-ons separate.
>>>>
>>>> We don't have enough people to act like the python project.
>>>
>>> There are 51 megabytes of contributions from 83 contributors on gedasymbols.org. We’re *already* acting like the Python project, except we’re pretending we aren’t.

All I am hearing is 83 people have accumulated a lot of contributions
and that we are perhaps squandering an opportunity by not finding a
way to verify them and package them in a release of some kind.

>> And gedasymbols is not well used, or well-tested, or particularly
>> accessible to the uninitiated.
>
> We could certainly do better.

I know I have said this before but we need a tool that lets people
sign each others contributions as having been tested with a given
part, in simulation and what ever else. I know it will make the size
of the stuff there larger but it would also mean we could look at the
more endorsed stuff and pull it into a central distribution.

>>  It great to separate things into
>> modules but there's no point in not storing and distributing them
>> together with the core distribution.
>
> I think many would find a 50 MB distribution a bit much. Simply distributing a mixed bag of stuff with the core will not relieve confusion. I also see the success of the core/addon approach in other projects. It helps interface discipline when they are kept separate.

Indeed. Like most people I keep a spreadsheet with which ones I have
made and what they go to, if i have used them and additional notes.
Perhaps having a standard way to share that info would be of more
value than just having the symbols and footprints themselves. Could we
all agree on a CSV column list and then put it at the root of our
respective repo's?

> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
>
>
>



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