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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 01:29:42PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>
>> > What about breaking the process into two steps? The first step
>> > collects ideas only - no discussion or decision making. The second
>> > step could entail a voting process on which features are most
>> > important to the stakeholders.
>>
>> gEDA is a doitocracy.  If you want something done, do it.  If you want
>> it done badly, convince others to help you do it.  Voting just isn't
>> going to work, because losing a vote doesn't make a developer want to
>> work on the winning idea.
>
> +1
>
> Those users (and devs) claiming the devs must use their favorite
> language (because, e.g. it's more popular than others, and "millions of
> flies cannot be wrong", sorry for the blunt expression, couldn't
> resist), don't value the efforts of the developers that have already
> been done.

I won't touch the first part of this because I don't want to grab a 3rd rail.

The last sentence though carries weight with me. If I was one of the
original authors or principles seeing people recode everything just to
escape C would be a special kind of quite maddening pain.

> I prefer evolution to revolution. Hey, guys, let's evolve our programs
> without our community splitting. We've already lost so many talents.

Yes!

> Cheers,
>   Vladimir



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