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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] is geda dead yet?
Date:	Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:38:56 +0300
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DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> writes:

I'm still considering Lepton a part of gEDA, we're trying to track the
issues emerging on the geda-user list, not always very successful
though, and that's the list we only use apart from IRC and the like
services.

> No significant commits in years.
>
> No releases in years.

The above is not about Lepton.

> Subprojects moving away, or forking.

I still think Lepton moves in the direction original geda-gaf moved
until its version 1.9.2.  Well, someone may call it a fork...

> Mailing lists are oddly quiet.

Cannot help much here.

> Risks are arising about dependencies on obsolete toolkits.

That's not about Lepton.

> Nobody seems interested in maintaining it any more.

Well, this is a hard job.  We're trying to refactor code and old docs
(including wiki ones) in our "fork" though it's very difficult to have
some significant progress taking into account the amount of active
devs.

> I'm contemplating pulling the plug on the 12 year old server and
> calling it a day.

Sad (sigh).

> Anyone want to argue otherwise?  ;-)
>
> (and if you do, you'll likely end up owning it ;)

I, for one, couldn't do it on my own having no proper resources (time,
skills, money) to maintain and support it all.  For me, even Lepton is a
tremendous job for now (while I still like it).

P.S.

BTW, I don't like Github for it's (ab)using the results of work of the
FOSS comunity and for ever growing demands on devs, especially for
trying to tie me to some devices.  So I'm considering moving to some
other service.  Dunno, how the community here perceives the following
idea, but maybe adding lepton to the list of repositories at
git.geda-project.org will make the site a bit more attractive place to
users from aside?

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