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On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 07:24:24PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Who are those devs who decided the direction we are moving now?
> 
> Whoever's willing to do the work, gets to do the work, and those doing
> the work collectively decide direction.  Those who used to provide
> direction have left the project, for various reasons.  As the only
> remaining project admin, I've been trying to get people to take
> ownership of the abandoned projects, just ask you took over (by
> default ;) management of the wiki (and thank you :).
I'm always working on the wiki in the time constraints I have now (not
sure I understand your English thoroughly here).

> 
> > The geda-gaf moving to xorn seems to be a behind-the-scenes decision
> > of some pcb devs.
> 
> No, it was a project completely done by the xorn creator.
> 
> > Where is collaboration here? Who did ask active geda-gaf developers?
> 
> Queries to those "active geda-gaf developers" drew a blank.  In the
> absence of developers, those willing to take up the task prevail.  The
> project was discussed on the mailing list.  Did you volunteer to
> collaborate when it was discussed?
Brr, do you consider me an inactive developer? (I should admit my
working on the geda-gaf windows port took much more time than I thought
it would do before..., so I had less commits during those months... :)
At least there is Edward Henessy, who've made much work on gschem code
during a few last years.

> 
> > Who did ask users?
> 
> The xorn code was done by an independent person on his own time
> with his own repo.  Why should he ask anyone else's permission?
> 
> I asked him to at least use a branch on the project repo, to give his
> efforts more visibility.  Do I need permission to let folks create
> branches?

I think those TS decisions should be at least discussed first:
========================================================================
Right now, there is some code duplication between libgeda and Xorn since
I didn't update libgeda to use the new infrastructure yet.  This is on
my to-do list, though.
========================================================================

Cheers,
  Vladimir