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On 14/02/17 15:47, John Doty wrote:
> The problem is that there’s no clear line here. gEDA isn’t consumer software. Many users who are not core developers are contributors, especially at gedasymbols.org. If you expect to be a consumer of some integrated thing, gEDA isn’t for you anyway.
Sure, but no new user is a contributor at the beginning of his/her 
interest. They are just looking for confirmation that it is safe to 
invest time into the suite. And believe me listing in on the geda-user 
list will not give you that confirmation. And as a contributor you may 
also not be interested in the development stuff. geda-users, 
geda-contrib, geda-develp, geda-rant.

But then again make a choice. If you all want gEDA to be a obscure 
specialised tool only accessible by the die-hards and core uses, please 
do so. Nothing needs to change then :-)

Cheers, Robert.