Mail Archives: geda-user/2019/02/13/02:46:46
gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the generic policy is that we provide "official" pcb-rnd support over any
> channel our users can reach us. Since 2013, these channels included
> geda-user@ and geda-help@.
>
> This is changing now: we are no longer providing pcb-rnd support on these
> mailing lists. This means:
>
> - if you need help with using or switching to pcb-rnd, please mail me
> directly or even better subscribe to the pcb-rnd mailing list or join our
> IRC channel (#pcb-rnd on repo.hu) where we provide real-time help
>
> - the last pcb-rnd release announcement I relayed from the pcb-rnd mailing
> list to geda-user was for version 2.1.1 (today); if the geda community
> wishes to relay future pcb-rnd release announcements, someone will need to
> volunteer for forwarding them
>
> - I've alerady unsubscribed from geda-help and will unsubscribe from
> geda-user later on, so please don't expect to reach me via these
> lists.
>
> Plans for the future:
>
> Meanwhile pcb-rnd is developing as fast as it did in the past few years.
> We have great plans for 2019 too. We still have scheduled releases and we
> still do a _lot_ between two releases. We are also building up our EDA
> ecosystem (coralEDA) in collaboration with other EDA-related projects.
>
> For example I plan to have some more fetures that have long time user
> request history. For example I plan to develop an _optional_ "click on a
> network/component/pin on the PCB layout and get it selected on the
> schematics or vice versa" support - I figured how to do it in a nice,
> generic way, without any integration between the tools, allowing any new
> tool to enter the same system very easily. In 2018 we found an sch editor
> project that is interested in collaborating on these things so we can
> finally add such improvements.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Igor2
>
>
>
>
Hi Igor2,
Thanks for being here on the list with contributions to discussions and
helping users by giving sound advice.
I wish you well with pcb-rnd and hope it delivers your expectations, and
the expectations the pcb-rnd user base may have.
Choices have been made in the past, by the pcb user base, and by pcb
developers as was seen fit at the time.
Keeping pcb as stable as possible and not doing drastic changes to pcb
is a choice too (only the "git vs svn" issue was a showstopper to me).
I have learned from that period that pcb users are using and not
developing, sometimes contributing a (large) patch or bug report, which
are most welcome.
I also learned that the decision for a fork was made before it was even
discussed with me.
Anyway, family life, the day job and another outdoor hobby keep me more
than busy, hardly enough free cycles for pcb.
BTW: I noticed an enormous amount of commits have been done in pcb-rnd
over the last 3 .. 4 years, tens of thousands of them, my compliments to
you. I guess you may have retired from your day job to be able to do that ?
Future plans for pcb:
There is a very small and active developer team for pcb at the moment,
and to be frankly, I don't see that changing soon. Even if the amount of
developers doubles it will remain a small team.
The pcb developer team will continue polishing and shaving the edges of
pcb, filling gaps in the user experience, repairing cracks in the
plaster, etc.
I guess nothing too drastic is going to happen in the pcb-4.x series ;-)
As always with kind and sincere regards,
Bert Timmerman.
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