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On Aug 22, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> for years I had and still have the impression that there is no shortage of gEDA/pcb developers. Actually, many talented people happily hack away on the project.
> However, for some magic reason, none of them does so in the official repo.

And this is healthy, similar to Python and LaTeX. Remember, one person’s essential feature is another’s debilitating bug. Add on, don’t mess up the core.

> Virtually all of them create forks.

A lot of us publish things on gedasymbols.org. Other add-ons have github projects that are not forks, but independent. 

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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