X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 207.224.51.38 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_46131642-F3FF-40A1-B066-036A2953D5F1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] Project leadership X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 2.5.2 From: John Doty In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:25:36 -0700 Message-Id: <9E19D617-6F76-4D24-8C60-4A4B15BA5952@noqsi.com> References: <5AC3D5C5-144F-41AE-9562-47BC34D9047F AT noqsi DOT com>

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To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) 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 --Apple-Mail=_46131642-F3FF-40A1-B066-036A2953D5F1 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_76CAF6D8-3D2A-4276-96B0-C633C9F019CF" --Apple-Mail=_76CAF6D8-3D2A-4276-96B0-C633C9F019CF Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Dec 22, 2015, at 6:48 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) = [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > As for refusing code because it doesn't fit the vision, gEDA isn't in = a good position to do this. Geda-gaf is in an excellent position to do this. It=92s mature, = effective, and flexible. It could be better, but making it better = requires discipline more than lines of code. It=92s *hard* to make good = code better: it=92s much easier to make it worse. > It makes devels quit and there aren't that many to begin with. On the other hand, pcb suffers from a lack of discipline. I find it an = unusable conceptual tangle. The problem is not a lack of developers, but = the lack of a vision. To the user, it=92s just a random grab bag of = features. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_76CAF6D8-3D2A-4276-96B0-C633C9F019CF Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252

On Dec 22, 2015, at 6:48 PM, Britton = Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) = [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] = <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>= wrote:

As for refusing code because it = doesn't fit the vision, gEDA isn't in a good position to do = this.

Geda-gaf is in an excellent = position to do this. It=92s mature, effective, and flexible. It could be = better, but making it better requires discipline more than lines of = code. It=92s *hard* to make good code better: it=92s much easier to make = it worse.

It makes devels quit and there aren't that many to = begin with.

On the other hand, pcb = suffers from a lack of discipline. I find it an unusable conceptual = tangle. The problem is not a lack of developers, but the lack of a = vision. To the user, it=92s just a random grab bag of = features.

John Doty Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

http://www.noqsi.com/

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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