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On Feb 13, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:

> An open source project like geda relies on volunteers to get ahead.

It has been very hard for volunteers who are not part of the inner circle to contribute. We fixed the attribute censorship bug *four years* ago, but the fix has still not made it to the distros. This has nothing to do with programming language.

Most of the contribution activity is on gedasymbols.org.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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