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> Who are those devs who decided the direction we are moving now?

Whoever's willing to do the work, gets to do the work, and those doing
the work collectively decide direction.  Those who used to provide
direction have left the project, for various reasons.  As the only
remaining project admin, I've been trying to get people to take
ownership of the abandoned projects, just ask you took over (by
default ;) management of the wiki (and thank you :).

> The geda-gaf moving to xorn seems to be a behind-the-scenes decision
> of some pcb devs.

No, it was a project completely done by the xorn creator.

> Where is collaboration here? Who did ask active geda-gaf developers?

Queries to those "active geda-gaf developers" drew a blank.  In the
absence of developers, those willing to take up the task prevail.  The
project was discussed on the mailing list.  Did you volunteer to
collaborate when it was discussed?

> Who did ask users?

The xorn code was done by an independent person on his own time
with his own repo.  Why should he ask anyone else's permission?

I asked him to at least use a branch on the project repo, to give his
efforts more visibility.  Do I need permission to let folks create
branches?

> Look, I don't use IRC, probably I've missed something happened last
> time... (?)

I don't recall any xorn topics on IRC.