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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] We are about to alienate users was -> geda-gaf fork
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On 15 February 2017 at 18:19, John Griessen (john AT ecosensory DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On 02/14/2017 08:21 AM, Svenn Are Bjerkem (svenn DOT bjerkem AT googlemail DOT com)
> [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>
>> If nobody wants to 'own' geda-gaf the way it is, then it will
>> just be a spot for roadside picnics in the future where users just
>> have to live with whatever is left behind.
>
>
>
> Hmmm... a future with raccoon and coyote users, and no lead developer.
> Could be...

Changes are happening as we speak
I just did a git fetch --all on my geda-superuniverse and my spies reported:

There will be a lead.
And you will know his name.

>
> It matters less about what you call it than who you work on it with, but
> having
> no separate names for different groups' efforts is confusing enough to
> alienate.

Start to taste the name 'lepton-eda'

> I do not think a name change will lose many users -- whichever developer
> group
> with enough activity for bug fixing will attract almost all of the core
> users of geda-gaf.

Time will show, but from the git log back to 1999 it seems that there
will be a lot of momentum in the leptons.

-- 
Svenn

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