X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9eyq9WWdUHa+DPBbDHPkoefXoUxY6D8HNLOhaYz45l4=; b=xxUdOuf2IHPQDP2xyuHORxjvHJxYeagV3zgVwdp27ySBoDztifQ6YnsxFEJ+tMleCb TkeIFD5WKckhDSfdUfnxHMKTYocU3dvOP0wWEHIJ8GUcBIyy25l6xdHa8oc0tcq7XIRV Q4Lyn9Nrxclo4vUbaAXHFRJ/wqe4J0XovPQ2Xfr6e/YbDntu9zF2aEizuVOV3yXqgOzg D8HSQdP9qMdKrlQebST210YdxekrchnOC1QdLH1u8Qj7zLvUZ8CIW3qvsrArFIq3CkJh kLTutOfk0hG2kwZGyGU7hy9nqAEto94nWNzpH3W8KR9/Q9sMTPZFzbfy3e2EV9fkyVWC YvqQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.25.40.130 with SMTP id o124mr3410690lfo.41.1444362001347; Thu, 08 Oct 2015 20:40:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <596B15AA-2E03-4914-A880-810DFA46D255@noqsi.com> References: <20151008122325 DOT 1913297qo8i1esw0 AT webmail DOT oregonstate DOT edu> <596B15AA-2E03-4914-A880-810DFA46D255 AT noqsi DOT com> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 03:40:01 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [geda-user] list not user friendly? From: "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: gEDA users mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id t993e6cc024703 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 On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:12 PM, John Doty wrote: > > On Oct 8, 2015, at 1:23 PM, traylor AT eecs DOT oregonstate DOT edu wrote: > >> I hope we can all find a way to work together. I'd hate to see these tools slowly die. > > I don’t buy the notion that fixing things that aren’t broken is necessary to prevent their death. bitrot could happen and over time the version of gtk or some other dependency could go too far out of date for anyone to ship it. (distro wise) When you have a year old stable release and a year old unstable one new adopters think this is abandoned and ignore it. This only makes finding new developers harder. >> Ask questions nicely, be considerate, assume noble intent. > > "Good intentions are the source of more folly than all other causes put together.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road. > > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. > http://www.noqsi.com/ > jpd AT noqsi DOT com > > -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/