X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:59:50 +0000 From: "Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] pcb-rnd says good bye to gEDA (part 3) Message-ID: <20171211175950.GM4167@stuge.se> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote: > (part 1 was the 66.667% announcement; part 2 was the rationale of the > split; now about the future) The progress of pcb-rnd is super cool! Although I haven't yet tried pcb-rnd I have always enjoyed reading about pcb-rnd changes and development. I recognize that what started as a fork of gEDA pcb has grown into a whole family of tools with increasing quality and opportunity, and I understand and support the decision to "move out of the parents' house"! :) Nevertheless, I consider pcb-rnd super relevant to gEDA and all gEDA users. > Since the emperor of gEDA is DJ Mh. I don't see him that way. I think (hope) he doesn't either. > 1. We stay and lurk; if someone asks anything about pcb-rnd, we answer. > 2. We stay and lurk; if someone has a pcb problem and pcb-rnd has a solution, > or someone makes a pcb feature request and pcb-rnd bites, we answer. > 3. I send the usual release announcement upon every pcb-rnd release: > release notes and the urls > 4. We go on announcing new features that we think may be interesting for > potential users .. > If there's no decisions, I will probably pick 1, 2 and 3. Point 4 is > useful only if gEDA decides to change and promote pcb-rnd as its > preferred pcb editor; I would like to plea for 1, 2, 3 *and* 4. > if it goes on pushing PCB, details on pcb-rnd will be just noise > for PCB users See my story above. This assumption doesn't hold. > who will never try pcb-rnd because it's "not official". This is also an assumption which doesn't hold in my case - not yet trying pcb-rnd has nothing to do with promotion or officialness, but everything to do with personal priorities and time management. I am quite sure that I will try pcb-rnd in the future, and I would be happy to learn about cool pcb-rnd development also on geda-user. Thanks a lot! //Peter