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Subject: Re: [Geda-developers] PLEASE STOP !!! - Re: [geda-user] Apollon
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Evan Foss <evanfoss AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak
> <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
>> Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-
>> user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>
>>> I understand that you have contributed meaningfully to this project but
>>> we need a team to be blessed by the powers that be.
>>
>> In my very humble opinion, we need a working team in the first place. The
>> keyword here is "working" as opposed to let patches bit rot, not decide
>> weather or not a feature branch should get merged or abandoned, or not the
>> least, procrastinate releases and have no road map with goals for future
>> development whatsoever. Everything else should come second.
>> (Sorry for the harsh words. But realistically, the above characterizes the
>> progress of the geda project since about 2008 for the most part. Yes,
>> there were significant improvements in some areas and I am glad about it.
>> Else, I would have switched away since long. But seen from a distance the
>> progress looks glacially -- in particular when compared to projects like
>> freecad or kicad)
>

To be fair a number of people have been working on the anti-fork
effort and are making some progress. This is what I was getting at
when I said focusing on a stable release.

I feel like I already answered in my earlier comments on this thread.