gEDA-dev: XML File Formats, hierarchy issues and other rants

[Peter TB Brett]

On Thursday 15 March 2007 15:02:10 Steve Meier wrote:

> ps geda is now available through sourceforge and 7 developers are
> registered. I have in the past for other projects made donations to
> support development. It looks like of the seven developers only one is
> interested in such donations.

You must have realised by now that the gEDA development community is much 
larger that only those seven developers.

One really constructive way to donate would be to fund a student to develop 
the feature(s) you want during their summer vacation.  CUED did so for Peter 
C & myself last summer, and between us we managed some good code clean-ups 
and found a number of crash bugs.

Some better direction re objectives for our project would have allowed us to 
have considerably more success.

I would certainly be happy to spend a couple of weeks during the summer 
hacking on gEDA -- I may well anyway -- but having some money to pay my rent 
would go a long way towards helping me to be able to do so.  On the other 
hand, most of the things on your demands list are things which require 
substantial rewrites or refactoring of core code, and thus might well be 
unsuited for a two-week project, and... well, I was going to go into a 
lengthy discussion of what would be required, but <insert Stuart's e-mail 
here>.

The work Peter C has done on giving PCB a D-BUS interface goes some way 
towards (5) on your list, BTW.

Peter

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