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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 21:24:35 +0200
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] pcb git down, new git repo available
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From: "Bert Timmerman (ljh4timm AT xs4all DOT nl) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Hi all,

I've had a pcb coding sabbatical for a couple of years (busy private 
life, different role and larger projects at my employer).

I'm fine with geda-pcb-developers/pcb being a semi official repo, I 
started this as a backup repo just in case.

If anyone wants pushing rights and has a github account please give me a 
shout and I send you an invitation over Github.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

On 04-06-2025 08:18, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com)
> [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>> On 6/3/25 01:07, DJ Delorie (dj AT delorie DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
>> wrote:
>>> So I've decided to "give up" on keeping this thing alive any longer.
>>> Igor2 has offered to host a read-only copy and refer everyone to
>>> whatever other public repos have more recent versions, for those of you
>>> on github et al.  Or switch to lepton or ringdov.  Or kicad.  Or
>>> DaveCAD.  I'm not going to be emotionally tied to whatever you decide ;-)
>>>
>>> DNS has been updated, so everything should be seamless, except the old
>>> git repos will vanish next time the ancient server crashes.  They were
>>> out of date anyway.
>>>
>>> Many thanks to those who have helped keep this alive in the past, and
>>> offered to help keep it alive in the future!
>>     This is very sad, but understandable.
> Agreed.  Thanks for all your effort over the years DJ.
>
>>     I'm happy to host the mailing list here if that would be helpful; let
>> me know.
> I'd appreciate the mailing list to continue existing without anyone
> needing to sign up again if that's possible.
> People are still responding now so it seems worthwhile.
>
> Other than that I'd like to see a github index page that keeps track
> of the most maintained repositories of the various components,
> somewhat like the old gEDA web pages used to do.  In my case this
> means pcb, gerbv, and gschem.  I'm not opposed to it being inclusive
> of anything anyone else thinks should go on the list.
>
> So far as I know at the moment this means:
>
> For pcb:    https://github.com/gEDA-pcb-developers/pcb
> For gerbv:     https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv
> For geda-gaf maybe:  https://github.com/rlutz/geda-gaf ?
>                    or maybe:  https://launchpad.net/geda/+download
>                    or ?  with gschem I'm not sure at all which is best
> at this point
>
> Does Bert's version of pcb have everything worth preserving from elsewhere?
>
> Bert are you still around and ok with having your version
> semi-official?  Obviously we're not talking about any big commitment
> here at this point, just a sort of best bet at what is most likely to
> build.
>
> Which version of gschem is suggested?
>
> Maybe this would just be my private list idk, but I still use this
> software and maybe it's worth preserving some idea of how best to make
> it work for someone else also.  If there are parts above that nobody
> wants to speak for at all I'd like to know that as well (and I'll make
> an "official" version of my own :)
>
> Britton
>