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To:	geda-user AT delorie DOT com
From:	"Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	[geda-user] How gEDAhead was born
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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2015 22:22:47 +0200
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Maybe some people consider the gEDAhead effort to be a silly thing
quickly done in a weak moment. Be assured, the whole thing is the result
of careful considerations along with extensive discussions. More than
100 emails were exchanged. Mostly done by reducing all these "let's fork
and do everything better from the ground up" ideas down into a
reasonable, mangeable unit. Also into a task which would put emphasis on
keeping what's already good, avoiding wheel-reinvention.

There was and is also a plan. Next and perhaps last step of this plan
was to join with DJ. Even an offering to join gEDAhead with the
traditional team, taking the lessons learned into account, is written
already.

Why wasn't this offered earlier already, before founding gEDAhead? First
reason is that gEDAhead's success was anything but granted. It could
have vanished just as unnoticed as it appeared. Who'd know wether we
were right with our considerations? Only trying could answer this.

The other reason is, it was easily forseeable that joining with DJ
earlier would have put him into a conflict with the traditional team. We
took the risk of alienating him somewhat instead of forcing him into
this conflict.

Joining with the traditional team up front was considered to be
impossible. Actually it was the traditional team's deafness which was
the sole reason for starting the search for alternatives. The search
which eventually led to the gEDAhead effort.

Looking at the current situation, the offering mentioned above
apparently has to wait now.


Markus

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Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter
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