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On Oct 25, 2012, at 4:21 AM, Gareth Edwards wrote:

> 
> I think that's true for gEDA/PCB, but  gEDA/gaf appears to be close to
> abandonware right now.

Stability is a good thing in production software.

> Stable 1.8 was kicked around almost a year ago
> then silence. Of the current committers, only Edward and Krzysztof
> have been in any way active since February.
> 
> 4 out of the 6 commits since February have been for the new print
> tool, not in the core of the code.

That's the nature of a toolkit. It preferable to make improvements by adding new tools, rather than breaking old tools with unanticipated consequences of new features.

To a large extent, the gEDA action has moved to gedasymbols.org, which has grown to 32 MB of stuff (symbols, footprints, scripts, simulation models, ...). That's a tremendous community contribution, and I think that's where the biggest opportunities to contribute are.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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