gEDA-dev: Newbie developer guidelines.

[Stuart Brorson]

>> Thanks for your e-mail and interest in the gEDA project!  We're glad
>> to have you!
>
> Thanks...
>
>> My question for you is:  What are you interested in?  Do you like
>> simulation?  Are you a math geek?  Or are you more interested in
>> fiddling with a GUI?  Or do you enjoy creating scripts to automate
>> various tasks?  Are you an artistic type who likes to draw?  Or maybe
>> you prefer organized, methodical tasks?
>> 
>
> I like to play around with math a lot. Simulation also appeals greatly to
> me... I'm not very much interested in providing the basic point-and-click
> GUI. Drawing strange shapes using strange rules appeals more to me - which
> again seems to take me to simulation..

In that case, I'd suggest that you look at Gnucap, one of gEDA's
analog circuit simulators.  Al, the main author, has his own vision of
what Gnucap needs; I figure it's up to him to suggest a project to
you.  But from my perspective, one of Gnucap's faults is that it needs
to have a built-in JFET model, or at least a plug-in similar to the
ones it must have for MOSFETs.  Gnucap is written in C++.  Maybe that
would be an interesting project?

Or, as others have pointed out, PCB needs somebody to write an
autorouter.

Stuart