during the last month I developed a small version control system for the Eagle EDA suite called Thermik. I'm pretty busy in the meantime and have no more time to work on my electronic projects, but I want to see how it performs. Therefore I'm looking for some volunteers who are interested in giving the version control system a try as beta testers.
Thermik is web based, I'll provide the whole hosting. On the Eagle side only a small ULP script is used which sends all necessary files to Thermik.
You all can have a look at it at http://thermik.dyndns.org/. I added the Arduino Uno as a demo project and made some example changes to it.
At the moment Thermik has these features:
Visual diff for schematic and layout
Semantic diff for schematic
Release management
Notification system
Contribution system
BOM management
Drawing preview in browser
If anyone of you has some ideas, just write them down
In schematics if you can provide a bold and bright colors for showing the variation in high resolution, it would make it easy to view the diff in detail.
you're right, schematic diff is indeed a little bit ... let's say "noisy". The diff images are usually 1200px in width, what is fine for most projects. But for the Arduino Uno drawing in the example it is definitely too small. So I increased the diff image size to 1800 now.
Should be better for the next commits.
Something general about the commit procedure:
For Thermik I implemented a "2-Step" commit procedure. First you click on a commit button in Eagle which just sends all data to Thermik. This is really handy because it does not interrupt the work at all. Second step is to finally commit these pending commits to the repository. Before finalizing, a diff is shown to have another review of the own work.
