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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Project leadership
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On 12/22/2015 12:01 PM, John Doty wrote:
>> KiCAD has had a clear project at most points in its history, and
>> that person has been responsible for shaping the development
>> goals, strategies and targeting what developer effort they had at
>> their disposal. Handover between leaders has (at least in recent
>> times), been clear and decisive within the project. (I'm less
>> clear about the hand-over from its original author to the first
>> project leader).
> 
> And the result is an inflexible integrated tool rather than a
> flexible toolkit. We cover the parts of the space that they don’t.
> It would be great to interoperate with KiCAD. It would be horrible
> to become more like them: they already have that part of the space
> covered better than we ever will.

  Heh.  Have you ever actually tried to build KiCAD?  If your Linux
installation is older than, say, last week, you're screwed.

             -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA