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On 07/10/2015 10:23 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
[...]
>> So what's the deal here? Either everyone joins forces to work on something
>> suboptimal, and then it's all great and joy, or people work on their own and
>
> Well, if your private board production system with PCB is actually optimal,
> I guess you're right, but mine is far from it and there are lots of things I
> can imaging PCB doing better.  My infrastructure for handling symbol->part
> etc. works ok but I don't think you're properly accounting for the time
> that's getting wasted in reinvention even of that relatively simple stuff.
>
> DJ seems open to the idea of some kind of more aggressively integrated branch,
> so if we had a (D)VCS that wouldn't cause anyone to run screaming, someone
> willing and able to manage it, and some people to test out of it something
> might happen.

Why not just create a centralized "experimental" branch where people can add
their features, and more importantly, their clean-up and refactoring work in
small, incremental steps? Just use the (D)VCS that is already in place. If
that turns out to be a good idea and sparks useful feature additions and
refactoring, great. If that turns out to be a bad idea, just forget about that
branch. I don't think that everybody hacking away on their own fork is doing
much good for gEDA as a whole. There's simply not enough porting from the branches
into the main repo and thus not enough testing and too much bit rot. An experimental
branch could solve this.
I'm quite satisfied with my own pcb fork, but if I'd use the component db someone
else developed, I'd saved some time and I might have gotten around to add tools for
impedance matching traces, a keep-out layer or push-and-shove routing tools.

Best regards,
Robert