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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Project leadership
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:57 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
> To clarify my role in gEDA...
>
> I never intended to be "in charge of" gEDA - it fell on me because
> everyone else who was in charge left.  Leadership through attrition
> sucks but I didn't want the whole project to vanish so I gave it a
> home and kept it alive.
>
> So now I'm "in charge of" gEDA only because I own the domain names and
> master accounts, which gives me control over all the project
> resources.  That doesn't mean (nor preclude) that I run any of the
> gEDA projects, although since the people who did run the projects were
> the ones who left, it didn't take much to be the one seen as "running"
> the projects also.
>
> My goals since then were to babysit the projects and hope that people
> would "rise to the challenge" and become project leads for the gEDA
> projects.  To that end, I've been liberal with accounts and
> permissions, relying on git to be able to "undo" mistakes.  I wanted
> to make it as easy as possible for developers to contribute, to
> hopefully rebuild the robust community we once had.  Sadly, I've spent
> more time dealing with the hostility on the mailing list (which is why
> the original developers left) than bringing in new developers.
>
> As for Xorn, there was a contributor who had an exciting new idea and
> was willing to do the work.  Should I have sent him off on his own?
> One more person lost to geda?  If you have issues with the xorn
> integration, discuss them and fix them, or agree to un-git them.  I
> will not apologize for trying to inspire new developers.

You were right in what you did then. I know initially I was against it
but I was wrong.

On the same note I have been thinking about something. We should offer
Igor2's stuff listed on the geda downloads area next to the mainline.

> What we NEED are project leaders who:
>
> 1. Inspire development in their project
> 2. Resolve issues between developers
> 3. Coordinate development direction
> 4. Manage releases, code sprints, reviews, etc.
> 5. Present a positive "face" to the public



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