Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/07/13/16:39:27
Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On 07/13/2015 03:27 PM, Bert Timmerman (bert DOT timmerman AT xs4all DOT nl) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>
>>> I think what we need to motivate actual development, rather than
>>> conversation, is cold hard CASH. I'll kick in a few bucks for the next
>>> round of development, whatever it may be, for gschem and PCB.
>>>
>>> Anyone else?
>>>
>>>
>> Just my proverbial 0.02 EUR.
>>
>> IMHO, this is not fair towards the "pure" unpaid volunteers.
>>
>> This approach put me off last time some bucks were collected through
>> LinuxFund (1).
>>
>> I could be tempted myself to hold off any commits until some cash was in
>> sight and a paid for target identified.
>>
>> To me this approach looks counter-productive on first, second and hind
>> sight: if the financial threshold is not met, no commits will follow.
>>
>> GSoC (2) is another way of getting some progress, although as soon as
>> money or big job opportunities are in sight (last time) things can turn
>> out sour (abandonware: I have no hard feelings though, it's just a pitah
>> nobody was able to pick this one up and follow through, it's probably
>> waaaaay over our heads --> magic stuff for a genius/wizard to master).
>>
>> We are in this together and have to do the grunt work ourselves, long
>> live the "doitocracy", these are your tools, let's keep them sharp and
>> useful by (y)ourselves ;-)
>>
> In general I agree, but few things motivate people more than cash. I
> wonder if there's some way to do it that actually works.
>
> -Dave
>
>
Hi Dave,
If we were all entrepeneurs depending on pcb for our livelihood ... we
would scratch that itch very soon ... just about now !
So there is a way: start coding and send in patches ... and keep
hammering on the remaining devs to push them !
Create consensus !
I don't know much about the pcb internals, I'm just amply able to code a
plug-in or two ... well, maybe three ;-)
All I can do (or did) is push an upgrade for a Dutch or Portugese
translation file to the main pcb repo every now and then, correct a typo
here and there ;-)
I did create a lot of topic branches with patches from Launchpad, on my
github sandbox repo (1), as to keep them useful by fast-forwarding (git
rebase) and removing bitrot every now and then.
It's just that I need someone to give me advice/direction between what
is an improvement (good patch --> push this one) or what is not in line
with future goals (bad patch --> do not push that one).
If there is a "broad consensus" I can merge the good ones into "master"
and push, all by popular demand from users and devs.
Kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
1) https://github.com/bert/pcb/branches/all
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