Support KiCanvas for KiCad rendering/review
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Proposal
GitLab offers various tools and plugins to (pre|re)view files. There's the obvious mark-down renderer, which includes plantuml support. There's openAPI renderer for openAPI yaml files.
Git(lab) is also used to host (open) hardware projects, which tend to use KiCad. Viewing KiCad files has up until now not been possible to view in repositories, hence often PDF files of schematics are added to a repository.
Just new we have KiCanvas! hackaday, project website which allows you to view and render KiCad files right in the browser, meaning adding a viewer to GitLab would be amazing, making for a far superior user experience. Not sure how 'trivial' it would be to integrate into markdown (deff. a huge plus) but this demo, shows a website integrating the canvas component, making for an interactive document!! video1 video2.
The project is not done yet, and is in search of sponsorship. These are two fronts where GitLab could help. One, be a sponsor on the KiCanvas development, and in return get early access to the code, which allows for early development of this feature into GitLab.
This feature, would certainly make GitLab Great again (for electronical engineers) and offer (temporary) leverage to other hosting platforms.
Note, that this is also probably valuable for your more enterprise users (which would use KiCad) as this now also makes it so non-users of this program (that do not have it installed, cooperate IT policies what have you) can now safely and securely view files as well.