naming convention

[hwillemen]

So regarding your statement "In this folder there are all the modules and libraries, I tried to organize them with a minimum of logic but better approaches then mine are really welcome"

Right now, you probably took models and libraries from a lot of different sources and put them together in this repo.
That is a good first step but to me everything feels a bit unorganized /hard to use.
(already better than Kicad by default though since that has only basic models)

I would like to give the following suggestion:

• create a naming convention and keep this consistent for all libraries
• strongly look at the naming conventions for the KiCad Libraries (KLC)
• example1: no spaces in files or folders
• example2: top level directories as main "libraries" like diode-zener, transistor-FET, etc.
  level below that should contain lib files, not to much nesting of folders.
  (a diode-zener-ST.lib would belong under "diode-zener" obviously)
• make (a) converter script(s) to convert from other formats to the ngspice/Kicad format.
  (LTSpice format is also fine since that is widely used and compatible)
• On https://forum.kicad.info/t/where-do-i-find-models-for-ngspice/29485 I read something about encrypted models so maybe we need to allow for LTSpice models as well?
• since models are shown in Kicad in the order they are defined, keep these lib's in alphabetical order.
  (and/or make a script to enforce this on pull requests)

Maybe a nice topic to have some brainstorm on...