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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:16:06 +0200
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] The state of gEDA/gaf
From: Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn DOT bjerkem AT googlemail DOT com>
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On 26 October 2012 02:10, Markus Hitter <mah AT jump-ing DOT de> wrote:
>
> Am 26.10.2012 um 00:51 schrieb Svenn Are Bjerkem:
>
>
>> On 26 October 2012 00:11, Markus Hitter <mah AT jump-ing DOT de> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> One experience from another project - RepRap 3D printers - is, people are
>>> extremely shy these days. I think it's to some extent because a few years
>>> ago experienced users didn't hesitate to blast out a "you fool!" when a
>>> newbie did something not entirely accurate. That strikes back these days,
>>> press stories here and there about people taken to court for internet
>>> postings do the rest.
>>
>>
>> I think it is healthy that some kind of reality feedback reach some of
>> the largest egos and pull them back to ground. Most people behave when
>> using full name. :-)
>
>
> So you propose shouting at people contributing work? This sounds _very_ odd
> to me.

Nope, I was more talking about the back-strike in court against the
big-mouths. Wasn't clear in my reply.

>> Probably the biggest no-go, in my opinion, is that git is not
>> something a casual user/programmer knows about.
>
> You need a "git clone git://git.geda-project.org/geda-gaf" for getting the
> sources and a "git diff" for making the patch. What else?

Depends if you want to keep a local copy of your changes in case you
are asked to do more modifications.

>
> That said, the patches do exist already. Remote repos exist. It's all there,
> so I can't find an issue with this.
>

The only issue I can find is that I don't have commit access to the
geda repository and that I do not know what kind of patches or
repositories we are talking about. With "remote repo" I understand
stuff on github or any other place but git.geda-project.org.

-- 
Svenn