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On Sun, 12 Jul 2015, Girvin R. Herr (gherr375 AT sbcglobal DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

<snip>
> When I first looked at LCAD, I got on their user's list to see how much help 
> they were giving to users.  If I were to do that to the geda-user list this 
> past week, I would have found very little help being given to users and 
> probably not commit to use geda for my work.  I would expect many users,

There was very little (==0) user questions. My experience from the past 
decade is when user questions appear, no matter how hard "non-user" 
traffic is, it gets answered.

I am not sure what kind of email software you are using. Many email 
clients can sort volumes of mail so it's very easy to delete what you 
don't want. It (alpine) has a concept of threads, so that 200 messages 
are in a forest of a few trees. I can hide trees or delete whole subtrees. 
When one of the subtree started to turn into the usual "I don't 
care why you prefer centralized vcs, but you mst switch to dvcs because it 
is better" thread, I could easily cut it off.

I trust potential geda users can handle this. The suite is not user 
friendly in the now-fashionable sense of the term anyway. Users who can't 
sort 200 emails, will drop out of the user base during the first days and 
switch to something more integrated.

> myself included, do not care anything about the inner workings of the tools.

Please also note that about two third of these threads are not strictly 
about the inner workings of the tool, but about decisions on what the 
tool should do in the future - on a level that is very relevant to any 
user.


Regards,

Igor2