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Date: | Thu, 9 Jul 2015 16:26:12 -0400 |
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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] Re: developer excitement? |
From: | "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> |
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Lilith Bryant (dark141 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote: > On 2015-07-09 10:34:21 AM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >> DJ, when my projects have projects this is what I fall into >> https://xkcd.com/974/ >> >> Not everyone stops on the way to fixing their furnace and improves >> autorouting. Our workflows in real life are fundamentally different. >> > > Agreed. The small amount of work I've done on PCB has been necessary for > getting jobs out the door. > > Which leads to a bigger problem I see of repo fragmentation. There seems to be a > bunch of great looking branches for PCB, but there seems to be little will to pull them > into the mainline. > > How many patches are sitting in the bug tracker that haven't ever been looked at? > > Fully appreciate that everyone (including myself) has a life/paying job/more interesting > stuff to do, but I get the feeling that if I do contribute more, it'll just sit forever in a repo > branch somewhere and rot. > > I'm going to fix the bugs in track dragging branch and fix ortho to maintain dragged tracks at > 45degs, so I'm not talking anything esoteric here. Not sexy, but possibly a real usability help. YES! I am a bit scared off of touching PCB but if I can find I way I will help you! > But does anyone with repo access care enough for it to even looked at? Not saying anyone > necessarily *should* care. But if not, I'm not going to waste my time getting my changes > to a production quality, as opposed to just doing a dirty hack for myself. Fair point.
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