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On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Stefan Salewski wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 10:20 -0700, Edward Hennessy
> (ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> To increase the number of developers on the project, we would need to
>> find people interested in EDA, willing to contribute to open source,
>
> Yes, I have to admit that there is really not much hope.
>
> All FOSS development seems to have dried out in the last 10 years. Linux
> kernel contribution is now mainly by companies, not by independent
> people. GTK have very few developers left. For KiCad Mr Hollenbeck
> retired, and the remaining Kids seems to generate much noise, but do not
> contribute much value. Cern? I dont't know. Qucs? Maybe theory is too
> difficult. Fritzing? Have not heard much about it in the last years.

kicad does not seem as dead as you suggest.  Recent versions have 
included some new semi-auto-routing capabilities that are pretty nice.
There's a youtube video out there showing some cool features ... look
for it.

 	-F