Would it be to controversial to just call it fpedit and symedit? I am not sure I understand why you wanted the hyphen, but I didn't really follow the discussion to much in this thread. What are the other multiword tags in gitlab?
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 12:13, Ian McInerney <mcians...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was trying to avoid creating long tags, and since our current tags seem > to be distributed more on the short side (and since in the new GitLab > interface the tags are visible next to the issue name, the longer the tag > the more UI space it takes up) I was trying to keep them short. (and these > new ones would be on the upper end of the distribution of tag length, see > below chart :) ). > > I guess the difference between sym-editor and symbol-editor is only 3 > characters though... > > [image: KiCadTagLength.png] > > -Ian > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 8:57 PM Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie> wrote: > >> FWIW, in the code footprint is often abbreviated as fp, but symbol is >> rarely abbreviated. >> >> On 26 Nov 2019, at 20:45, Ian McInerney <mcians...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I do like fp-editor and sym-editor better. Note that for consistency with >> the other multiword tags for GitLab, I will use a hyphen. >> >> -Ian >> >> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, 8:07 p.m. Jeff Young, <j...@rokeby.ie> wrote: >> >>> I would go with either historic (modedit and libedit) or current >>> (fp_editor and symbol_editor). >>> >>> Mixing the two would be particularly obscure. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Jeff. >>> >>> > On 26 Nov 2019, at 19:40, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On 11/26/19 2:20 PM, Ian McInerney wrote: >>> >> I would like to introduce two new official tags on the bug tracker to >>> >> track issues relating to the symbol and footprint editors. Currently >>> we >>> >> are tracking these under the eeschema and pcbnew tags respectively, >>> but >>> >> those are growing quite large (pcbnew has over 500). I think tracking >>> >> these two tools under separate tags would help, since then we can more >>> >> easily locate bugs/wishlist items for them. >>> >> >>> >> I am thinking the footprint editor should be *modedit*, and my initial >>> >> proposal for the symbol editor is *libedit*. I don't really like >>> libedit >>> >> though, since technically footprints also live in a library (but the >>> >> code calls it libedit). Anyone have a better suggestion for its tag? >>> > >>> > How about "symedit", short for symbol editor. Honestly I would prefer >>> > "fpedit" over "modedit" since we really don't refer to footprints as >>> > modules any more. >>> > >>> >> >>> >> Once we sort out the tag, and if no one objects, I will go through and >>> >> update the tags after the GitLab transition is done. >>> >> >>> >> -Ian >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> > > -- > Ian McInerney > mcians...@gmail.com > > No electrons were harmed in the making of this message > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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