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>Asking devs to validate submissions is insane. 1. The pulls got copied over to gitlab. 2. Yea the gitlab library transition was not clean...technically it wa
by delfinom 5y ago
>Asking devs to validate submissions is insane.
1. The pulls got copied over to gitlab.
2. Yea the gitlab library transition was not clean...technically it was never finished. Once we get to RC1 for V6. I myself hope to switch over fixing up all our web content instead of chasing down Windows platform bugs.
2. The codebase devs actually have no involvement with the libraries. The libraries are already community ran. The problem is most people would rather file issues asking for new parts rather than finding a way to help.
3. Most everyone is a volunteer largely except for the two that make money doing paid support which is a job in of itself. We can't organize interns because none of us have the interest in burning more free time than we already do.
4. The current mindset of the librarians has been _quality_. Because bad PCBs due to component issues can be expensive and time consuming problems. And issues with components will not only harm trust of the libraries but also KiCad
5. Could we develop some sort of less-gitlab-dependent web system? Sure. Do we have the engineers with free time to do it? Absolutely not in a million years. I dream of doing it, I certainly have the ability to but I need to have a life too ;)
The bigger issue is the industry, hardwarists can have little or no programming background or don't feel comfortable outside whatever low level programming they do. So I don't fault them but that's the hand being dealt. This is a niche industry tool with niche demographic.
- contingencies 5y agoThanks again. Happy to help on 5. Merge ideas @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/kicad-fully-secure-unified-submission-system https://github.com/globalcitizen/kicad-fully-secure-unified-...
- delfinom 5y agoNot a fan of getting involved on github. There are reasons we use gitlab and it's mainly to avoid the daily github drama and noise. The biggest obstacle here is to get everyone else to buy in, mainly the librarians....who I'm honestly not sure how to hunt down for a conversation. Core devs probably don't want to deal with anything major/new until v7 next year at this point.
- contingencies 5y agoOK redirect added and moved to https://gitlab.com/globalcitizen1/kicad-fully-secure-unified-submission-system https://gitlab.com/globalcitizen1/kicad-fully-secure-unified...