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Subject: Re: [geda-user] About reinventing the wheel, and how to avoid it
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On Sep 11, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> Who are those devs who decided the direction we are moving now?
> The geda-gaf moving to xorn seems to be a behind-the-scenes decision of
> some pcb devs.

I don’t think so. It’s really Roland’s show, with little to do with pcb specifically. Roland has actually reimplemented many (all?) of the standard gnetlist back ends. The only place we disagree is whether xorn-gnetlist replaces gnetlist or exists as an alternative. Roland's the only person promoting it as a replacement as far as I can tell.

> Where is collaboration here?

Well, Roland certainly did treat me as a stakeholder, privately. I really appreciate that.

> Who did ask active geda-gaf
> developers? Who did ask users?  Look, I don't use IRC, probably I've
> missed something happened last time... (?)

I think that all the developers who wanted to keep gEDA development an exclusive club are gone. So, it isn’t. We’ll see if this is good news or bad news.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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