Contributor guideline about kicad_footprints HOT 1 CLOSED

Thanks, I'll try and put something in the readme. I am happy for people just to drop the name of the repository somewhere and I will add it (I just added natsfr/kicad-components).

If you want to save me a little time the process is pretty similar to any GitHub project and they have loads of help pages e.g. on forking, which is the first step.

The main difference is that we are working with submodules. To add a submodule to your fork, you have to clone it locally and:

git submodule add https://github.com/natsfr/kicad-components natsfr/kicad-components
git commit -m "Add natsfr/kicad-components"
git push

The naming scheme we are using for the folders is <user-name>/<repository> like the GitHub URLs.

And then open a pull request to add this to the main repo. There are no other guidlines really, if it contains KiCAD footprints it will be accepted.

from kicad_footprints.