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From: "Lilith Bryant (dark141 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: [geda-user] Re: developer excitement?
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On 2015-07-09 10:34:21 AM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> DJ, when my projects have projects this is what I fall into
> https://xkcd.com/974/
> 
> Not everyone stops on the way to fixing their furnace and improves
> autorouting. Our workflows in real life are fundamentally different.
> 

Agreed.   The small amount of work I've done on PCB has been necessary for 
getting jobs out the door.

Which leads to a bigger problem I see of repo fragmentation.   There seems to be a 
bunch of great looking branches for PCB, but there seems to be little will to pull them
into the mainline.

How many patches are sitting in the bug tracker that haven't ever been looked at?

Fully appreciate that everyone (including myself) has a life/paying job/more interesting 
stuff to do,  but I get the feeling that if I do contribute more, it'll just sit forever in a repo 
branch somewhere and rot.

I'm going to fix the bugs in track dragging branch and fix ortho to maintain dragged tracks at 
45degs,  so I'm not talking anything esoteric here.  Not sexy, but possibly a real usability help.

But does anyone with repo access care enough for it to even looked at?  Not saying anyone 
necessarily *should* care.  But if not, I'm not going to waste my time getting my changes
to a production quality,  as opposed to just doing a dirty hack for myself.