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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Project leadership
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On 22 December 2015 at 19:38, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>> someone (perhaps one or more of the currently active developers) needs
>> to decide they want to decide and direct the future of gEDA and PCB.
>> Decide this, ask the community for their backing - and if you get it -
>> take the lead. Come to FOSDEM, and speak on behalf of the project,
>> decide its future.
>
> I would cautiously nominate myself. Cautious because:
>
> https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events/7547.html

Sounds interesting... and I'd say, sounds like it qualifies as "experience".


> I do have a vision for open source EDA, I am very good at design
> across many (software) layers and constructing as well as
> implementing complex data models, but I am also starved for time.


The leader doesn't necessarily need to be someone doing the most
coding - or even the most design work, they just need the backing of
enough of the community, and have the personality to cope with
mediating / setting the project direction.


> My first priority for a major change would be to move PCB to a
> generic geometry data model.

Sounds sensible... I would be up for contributing to that.


>> If you do want to lead - but don't get backing to do so - quit...
>> fork... life is short, and if you have a vision for making open-source
>> EDA software better, go achieve that.
>
> Indeed. The empty shell of ideas that is edacore is all that I have
> been able to accomplish while not dealing with gEDA politics at all.


I should go over some of the preliminary stuff Peter B and I started
talking over on netlists / structures, before a) getting busy, and b)
realising that we can't design it before we get good buy-in.


Peter