Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/07/21/20:42:21
On Jul 21, 2015, at 6:19 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
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>> But adding another feature is effectively doing nothing as far as
>> most users are concerned, because we're not releasing the toolkit to
>> packagers any more. Getting a 1.10 release out would *really* be
>> doing something.
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> Are you volunteering to be the release manager?
I’d consider it, except that right now almost all of my work is with 1.8 and I don’t have enough confidence that I know exactly what’s what in 1.9. I think, however, that getting Peter Brett’s refactoring work out into the world would be a good thing.
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> Otherwise, the project does what the people doing the work are
> interested in, and telling someone you think they're wrong won't (and
> shouldn't) change anything.
Remember that I came from feature-loaded Viewlogic to cleaner, simpler gEDA. I don’t want to go back.
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> Plus, telling someone that the work they want to do (likely for their
> own benefit) is "effectively doing nothing" is very negative and
> harmful. Please don't do it again.
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>> And it's a bandaid, anyway. Rubberbanding *used* to work just
>> fine. What added feature broke it?
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> You're assuming some added feature caused the problem. It could have
> been caused by an internal refactoring or some bugfix. Perhaps you
> could triage this a bit and see if the change was intentional or not?
There are parts of the code I understand well, but the rubberbanding is not in those parts.
John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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