X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 207.224.51.38 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_F1B91D75-5FB5-496D-B4F9-AA88D22494BB"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] Project leadership X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 2.5.2 From: John Doty In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:48:34 -0700 Message-Id: <43CC8F96-6452-40FA-9DFB-E0983721C19C@noqsi.com> References:

To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail=_F1B91D75-5FB5-496D-B4F9-AA88D22494BB Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_683EB557-B79E-4B5A-9D29-312B2096539E" --Apple-Mail=_683EB557-B79E-4B5A-9D29-312B2096539E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Dec 28, 2015, at 11:53 AM, Marvin Dickens (mpdickens AT gmail DOT com) [via = geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > Currently, badly needed development rarely occurs because those > people who are capable do not contribute because they are put off > by a few users who want NOTHING to change because it does not > fit their personal work flow. >=20 There are really two projects here: The original gEDA (now confusingly = called geda-gaf), and pcb. I think everyone agrees that pcb needs a lot = of work. On the other hand, geda-gaf is matiure, effective, and easy to = extend with scripting. Pcb development requires a great deal of = collaboration. Geda-gaf development mostly does not, as anybody can = write and publish a script. There would be much less controversy if these projects were separated. = They represent radically different development patterns: conflating them = causes much confusion and strife. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_683EB557-B79E-4B5A-9D29-312B2096539E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

On Dec 28, 2015, at 11:53 AM, Marvin = Dickens (mpdickens AT gmail DOT com) = [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] = <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>= wrote:

Currently, badly needed development rarely occurs because = those
people = who are capable do not contribute because they are put off
by a few users who want NOTHING to = change because it does not
fit their personal work flow.

There = are really two projects here: The original gEDA (now confusingly called = geda-gaf), and pcb. I think everyone agrees that pcb needs a lot of = work. On the other hand, geda-gaf is matiure, effective, and easy to = extend with scripting. Pcb development requires a great deal of = collaboration. Geda-gaf development mostly does not, as anybody can = write and publish a script.

There would be much = less controversy if these projects were separated. They represent = radically different development patterns: conflating them causes much = confusion and strife.

John = Doty = Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

http://www.noqsi.com/

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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