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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Re: developer excitement?
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Lilith Bryant (dark141 AT gmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 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.

YES! I am a bit scared off of touching PCB but if I can find I way I
will help you!

> 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.

Fair point.