Mail Archives: geda-user/2017/12/09/09:18:05
Hi gEDA-users and geda-emperors (DJ),
(part 1 was the 66.667% announcement; part 2 was the rationale of the
split; now about the future)
Part 3: gEDA to pcb-rnd relation
since there is only one narrow bridge between pcb-rnd and gEDA, this
mailing list, the main question now that we are leaving, is how we
should or shouldn't use this mailing list in the future.
On one hand we are still GPL'd EDA, on the other hand we formally keep
ourselves away from gEDA. So anything from "feel free to use the
list" to "then really go away" sounds reasonable. Since the emperor of
gEDA is DJ, I will accept his decision on this.
What options I see (DJ, please say a "do" or "don't" for each):
1. We stay and lurk; if someone asks anything about pcb-rnd, we answer.
Rationale: our policy at pcb-rnd is that any channel a question or bugreport
reaches us, is the right channel for asking questions or reporting bugs.
2. We stay and lurk; if someone has a pcb problem and pcb-rnd has a solution,
or someone makes a pcb feature request and pcb-rnd bites, we answer.
3. I send the usual release announcement upon every pcb-rnd release:
release notes and the urls (one mail per 1..3 months).
4. We go on announcing new features that we think may be interesting for
potential users (more frequent mailing - I believe in 2017 this sort of
traffic took a big part of the mailing list archives; some users may
preceive this as spam)
If there's no decisions, I will probably pick 1, 2 and 3. Point 4 is
useful only if gEDA decides to change and promote pcb-rnd as its
preferred pcb editor; if it goes on pushing PCB, details on pcb-rnd will
be just noise for PCB users who will never try pcb-rnd because it's "not
official".
TIA,
Igor2
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