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From: "Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [geda-user] pcb git down, new git repo available
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2025 08:19:52 +0300
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Hi all,

"karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> writes:

> DJ Delorie:
>> "karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
>> writes:
>> >  For a long time the pcb git repository
>> >  (git://git.geda-project.org/pcb.git) has been unavailable:
>> 
>> Yup.  The machine is 10 years old.  I've offered to move it to a modern
>> VM but nobody offered to help configure it (the existing box was
>> configured by a large group of then-admins, not me).  It crashes often,
>> and usually months go by before anyone notices.  That's a sign to me
>> that the project is basically dead.
>> 
>> If anyone wants to take it off my hands, contact me off-list.

IMO, maintaining a repository on a specially designed platform for this
is much easier than supporting a site on a private server with steadily
decreasing amount of people who would like to administrate it.  OTOH,
there are people who hate the sites like GH (e.g. I do :-)).

> I can have it a few years, as long as I can afford the site, but after
> that someone else have to take care of it if there would be any
> interest. Considering the low mail volume on this list nowadays, there
> is probably no interest.

There is Bert's repository on GH:
- https://github.com/geda-pcb-developers

I know, Karl, you won't work with GH.  However you could support Bert's
efforts by sending patches to him.

I myself like PCB as I spent much time on it some time in the past, and
there are parts in Lepton that are dedicated for it.  However there are
reasons why I still cannot help much.  The program has to be ported to
GTK3 or GTK4.  Otherwise it will be thrown out from main Linux
distributions.  It's a lot of work, and I would need much more free time
to spent to deal with the task, while I'm still digging up in 25-years
old lepton code trying to do any progress.  Maintaining the 8 years old
lepton fork has shown me that there are still lots of people silently
waiting for somebody to continue the effort, and sometimes they even
help :-)

Regards,
  Vladimir