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	Thu, 09 Jul 2015 09:47:15 -0700 (PDT)
Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 2015 12:47:15 -0400
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Subject:	[geda-user] Repository Management was Re: developer excitement?
From:	"Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
To:	geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Reply-To:	geda-user AT delorie DOT com

This has kind of come up a few times before so I think it needs it's own thread.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Britton Kerin
(britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 8:01 PM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
>>
>>

Snip.

>> - PCB started to take directions in the last 4..5 years that I didn't really
>> like. The new features were much more often annoying and contra-productive
>> than useful for me. I started to compile PCB from source to turn off opengl
>> (normally I'd install the debian package). The features I really wanted or
>> the features I'd find useful didn't stir much interest lately. At some point
>> a few years back, after a new version introduced
>> yet-another-bunch-of-code-I-didn't-want, I just decided to fork an older
>> version of PCB. I implemented the features I wanted, and I don't have to
>> worry how a new release would be stuffed with features I'd never need.
>>
>> - Now that I have my fork, it's unlikely that I'd contribute to the official
>> stuff for simple, small, local, selfish reasons: I obviously do all the
>> little things the way I enjoy the most which makes working on my fork much
>> more attractice any time I feel like coding something for PCB. It's a
>> one-way mechanism.
>>
>> - It is important to mention that I could do this only because even that old
>> version of PCB that I choose was mature enough.
>
> This is the death spiral gEDA is stuck in.  Main line development is so slow
> that (essentially) private forks are more attractive, which in turn slows
> development more, etc.

To be fair a lot of people were contributing stuff that was really not
very cleanly done. The developers should have asked them to make it
less hairy but there was never a nice way to say it nicely.

There were also submissions that were not really in keeping with the
architecture or feel of the project. They should have been plugins but
with a the plugin issues around scheme the stuff was coded directly
into the mainline.


> Britton



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