To the package maintainers: There has been a lot of movement of late by the library team, with a view to improve (vastly) the quality of the symbol libraries.
The major change is our plan to reorganize the symbol libraries to bring some consistency - currently they are scattered and there is no real rhyme or reason to library convention. Reference - https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/1402 This is a big change - so much so that I would like to retain a separation between the current symbol libraries (for legacy compatibility). My suggestion is to enact the new symbols in a new repository: <http://goog_1316844941> https://github.com/kicad/kicad-symbols We currently have a separate discussion underway as to how we manage migration to the new repository (or whether we simply make a block change to the current one) - https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/1415 A further very important note is that there is a new repository for 3d models, which is of far higher quality - https://github.com/kicad/packages3d This repository should supersede the 3d models currently located in the kicad-library repository. This also brings a functional separation between the symbol libraries and the 3d library, which is fantastic. My goal for release concurrent with KiCad v5 is thus: a) Mark kicad-library as legacy and don't package with v5 b) Package kicad-symbols as the symbol libraries c) Package packages3d as the 3D model libraries I'm not 100% on top of how the packaging takes place so if there are any good reasons that this should not take place as I have laid out above, please let me know now. The footprint libraries will remain as they are for v5. I have some ideas there but they require a lot more work - this is the first step towards the KiCad Library Management Manifesto (evil laugh). Regards, Oliver
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