Talk:KiCad

Notability question
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kicad&btnG=Search Results 1 - 10 of about 205,000 for kicad.

-> www.kicadlib.org/ -> tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-users/ -> xtronics.com/reference/kicad.html (Kicad Notes and how tos) -> kicad.rohrbacher.net/quicklib.php (KICAD quick lib gen) -> http://code.rancidbacon.com/LearningAboutKiCad (Learning About KiCad) -> furter links to kikad related websites (about 50-60): http://www.kicadlib.org/Kicad_related_links.html

furthermore, kicad is already maintained in various linux distributions package trees, debian, ubuntu, many more. see http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/source/kicad or the debian package tree.

employee of cadsoft? :D

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.245.161.90 (talk • contribs), 21 September 2007 18:27 (UTC)


 * If some of those are significant independent coverage of the topic, add references to the article, as the notability tag suggests, and then say you've done so on the AfD discussion, and maybe you'll make a difference. Dicklyon 18:35, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Authorship
I'd suggest changing "developed by Jean-Pierre Charras" for "Initially developed by Jean-Pierre Charras", since now there's a certain amount of developers collaborating into it and I think it would be meaningful to mention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.218.10.96 (talk) 09:19, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Program name "KiCad", not "KiCAD"
In the program GUI itself and on their web page, they call it "KiCad" (capital K, capital C), not "KiCAD" (capital K, C, A, D). The page should be renamed. I don't know how to do this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.172.126.10 (talk) 10:33, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: uncontested move. DrKiernan (talk) 09:27, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

KiCAD → KiCad – In the program GUI itself and on their web page, they call it "KiCad" (capital K, capital C), not "KiCAD" (capital K, C, A, D). KiCAD is a different (commercial) application. The page should be renamed. (KiCad is in use now as it redirects to this page.) Ajv39 (talk) 18:18, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Links
I believe that in the case of KiCad, and perhaps other open source software, links that are currently flagged-up for 'reduction' or conversion into footnotes would be best left as they are. Indeed such links provide an essential and valuable facility to the practical reader.

I would add that while such removal, reduction or conversion of links into footnotes may seem to improve the readability of articles in Wikipedia, within articles that pertain to on-going projects such as KiCad, such editorial action is detrimental to the usefulness of the article. -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zorgrian (talk • contribs) 24 jun 2014 10:25‎ (UTC)

The needs of the reader
Wikipedia is now seen authoritative by many readers; this is especially true for projects such as KiCad. Where a list of links that pertain to an on-going open source project such as KiCad provide much needed reference to additional support, libraries of files or other needed help, I believe that it is better to maintain a list of such links. Indeed, this article should mention that KiCad is part of a community of sub-projects that are directly responsible for it's continued success.--zorg (talk) 10:25, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Quality
I think this page is a start class article now, if no one is opposed in a month or two I will label it as such.

I reorganized much of this page and tried to add more information in many places, but I left a lot of areas pretty sparse. I think with a little bit more fleshing out and rewriting awkward sentences it could start being a pretty good article!Reportingsjr (talk) 02:00, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

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Gitlab or Github?

 * https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-i18n
 * https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad-i18n

Which one is more "official"? --Guy Macon (talk) 22:38, 29 November 2019 (UTC)


 * GitLab is the official home for all the repositories according to the announcements (https://www.mail-archive.com/kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net/msg37385.html). The GitHub repositories have been archived and are read-only except for a mirror. Mcianster (talk) 22:32, 19 October 2021 (UTC)