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From: Markus Hitter <mah AT jump-ing DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] gEDA/PCBs diversity  Was: Pin hole size
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:53:23 +0200
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Am 25.10.2012 um 03:04 schrieb DJ Delorie:

> The gEDA development community needs more talented, enthusiastic, and
> like-minded people to jump in and do the work ;-)

Maybe ... well ... if you advertise "be talented and do the work"  
it's kind of unlikely somebody jumps up and says "here I am!".  
Newbies never consider them selfs to be talented or gEDA expert or  
whatever. Yet, a lot of work is done already, it just doesn't hit the  
repo. gEDA is well written, average talent is sufficient and  
development is easy, at least to my experience.

Committing new developments can be considered to _save_ work instead  
of adding some. No more duplicated work, get your work updated for  
free, no longer ask people to compile your fork instead of the  
official one ... and so on.


How about calling out for a collection? May everybody with public or  
private forks out there put his/her stuff back into the main repo.  
Acceptance guaranteed. Bug fixes go right into the master branch,  
other stuff into dedicated branches. And everybody interested may get  
access to commit and work on his stuff right in the main repository.

Maybe commit access for everybody sounds bold. But I see other  
communities where this works. These messing-everything-up developers  
simply don't exist and even if some of them appear, that's what we  
have source code management for: everything is revertable.

Opinions?


Markus

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