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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Project leadership
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On 22 December 2015 at 17:01, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:

>> KiCAD has had a clear project at most points in its history, and that
>> person has been responsible for shaping the development goals,
>> strategies and targeting what developer effort they had at their
>> disposal. Handover between leaders has (at least in recent times),
>> been clear and decisive within the project. (I'm less clear about the
>> hand-over from its original author to the first project leader).
>
> And the result is an inflexible integrated tool rather than a flexible toolkit. We cover the parts of the space that they don’t. It would be great to interoperate with KiCAD. It would be horrible to become more like them: they already have that part of the space covered better than we ever will.


I have no idea how you got to your conclusion from that...

They have a goal, and a design target - their leadership furthers the
goal of achieving that design... I fail to see how the fact they have
leadership dictates one design choice over another.

We all _GET_ that you don't like the KiCAD design.
Do you _GET_ that we're (I) am not trying to force that on gEDA?



Peter