Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Brett
1. Would any of the existing maintainers be able to devote more time to gEDA if they had financial support to do so ? In my case: yes. :-/ Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-09 Thread Stephen Ecob
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: 1. Would any of the existing maintainers be able to devote more time to gEDA if they had financial support to do so ? In my case: yes. :-/          Peter OK, so that's a 'yes' for question 1! Now for question 2 - money.

gEDA-user: component names hide all

2010-12-09 Thread uv
Dears, Is there any simple way to hide all component numbers on the board? Thank you Péter Papp ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-09 Thread Anthony Blake
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Stephen Ecob silicon.on.inspirat...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: 1. Would any of the existing maintainers be able to devote more time to gEDA if they had financial support to do so ? In my case: yes.

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-09 Thread Stephan Boettcher
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com writes: If you want to become a PCB committer, the process starts by writing good patches, reviewing other people's patches, and being involved in design discussions. When it gets to the point where the maintainers are just checking in whatever you ask, you're in

Re: gEDA-user: component names hide all

2010-12-09 Thread Stephen Ecob
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:46 PM, uv u...@peterpapp.com wrote: Dears, Is there any simple way to hide all component numbers on the board? Thank you Péter Papp Yes: 1. Select all (Alt+A or use the menu Edit - Select all visible) 2. Enter command mode by typing : 3. Type the command

Re: gEDA-user: Dev list [was: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB]

2010-12-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 09 Dec 2010 09:35:53 Stephan Boettcher wrote: DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com writes: If you want to become a PCB committer, the process starts by writing good patches, reviewing other people's patches, and being involved in design discussions. When it gets to the point where the

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-09 Thread David Smith
Anthony Blake wrote: Stephen Ecob wrote: 1. Would any of the existing maintainers be able to devote more time to gEDA if they had financial support to do so ? I'm aiming to finish University in a few months.. if people would like to fund work on the toporouter, then I would be pretty keen

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-09 Thread Stephen Ecob
I'm aiming to finish University in a few months..  if people would like to fund work on the toporouter, then I would be pretty keen to work on it full time. Regards, Anthony Good, we've established that money could help to improve gEDA :) What I'm *very* unsure of is whether we could raise

Re: gEDA-user: Dev list [was: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB]

2010-12-09 Thread gedau
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:27:31AM +, Peter TB Brett wrote: snip If I remember correctly, a major factor in the closure of the gEDA-dev list was that the signal to noise ratio became very low. There were several people, few of whom *ever* submitted patches, loudly and rudely telling

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-09 Thread Kovacs Levente
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:55:37 +1100 Stephen Ecob silicon.on.inspirat...@gmail.com wrote: Good, we've established that money could help to improve gEDA :) What I'm *very* unsure of is whether we could raise enough to make a difference. Does anyone have any idea of how many of us make

Re: gEDA-user: component names hide all

2010-12-09 Thread Kovacs Levente
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:46:56 +0100 uv u...@peterpapp.com wrote: Dears, Is there any simple way to hide all component numbers on the board? Settings-Hide names -- Kovacs Levente leventel...@gmail.com Voice: +36705071002 ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: comments on gcode generation

2010-12-09 Thread Armin Faltl
Markus Hitter wrote: Am 01.12.2010 um 21:47 schrieb Bert Timmerman: * no voronoi mode: all the other tools (see below) support a mode where they fill the unused area of the board with the closest net. this cuts the machining time down to less than 50%. Yes, this would be a very welcome

Re: gEDA-user: Dev list [was: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB]

2010-12-09 Thread Gareth Edwards
Hi Peter, On 9 December 2010 10:27, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: Perhaps the time has come to reconsider the role of and access to the gEDA-dev list?  How can we ensure that it doesn't collapse into an unproductive bikeshedfest again? Honestly, I don't think that time has come. I

Re: gEDA-user: Dev list [was: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB]

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 11:48 +0100, ge...@igor2.repo.hu wrote: It may be rude to state, but there are about 3 or 4 persons at most, who cause this sort of frustration on the user mailing list and on irc. I would say if you can set up some sort of simple, short but clear policy about what

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 12:16 +0100, Kovacs Levente wrote: In the other hand, I think we should concentrate on the priorities first. I know it will hurt some, but We have 2 (or more) autorouter. I know that they are nice, and usable, and required Not a bad thing IMO.. and the toporouter not

gEDA-user: Trapezoid pads

2010-12-09 Thread George M. Gallant, Jr.
I am looking to make a trapezoid shaped pad for an inductor. So far, I created a rectangular pad and drew lines on the surface to create the shape. Is there a better way as I would like to reuse the pad shape. George ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Trapezoid pads

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 10:34 -0500, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote: I am looking to make a trapezoid shaped pad for an inductor. So far, I created a rectangular pad and drew lines on the surface to create the shape. Is there a better way as I would like to reuse the pad shape. No good way at

Re: gEDA-user: Trapezoid pads

2010-12-09 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 17:23 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 10:34 -0500, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote: I am looking to make a trapezoid shaped pad for an inductor. So far, I created a rectangular pad and drew lines on the surface to create the shape. Is there a

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Dev list [was: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB]

2010-12-09 Thread DJ Delorie
Perhaps the time has come to reconsider the role of and access to the gEDA-dev list? How can we ensure that it doesn't collapse into an unproductive bikeshedfest again? I would be amenable to defining the geda-dev list as those who have commit access somewhere (pcb, geda, icarus, etc) and

gEDA-user: Text in PCB elements

2010-12-09 Thread John Coppens
Hello all. I seem to remember I read about this a time ago, but me and google can't seem to find any reference: I'd like to put text into PCB elements (in this case to label pins of a connector on the silk screen), but that doesn't seem possible... Each time I try to add text to an element, it

Re: gEDA-user: Trapezoid pads

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 18:53 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 17:23 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 10:34 -0500, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote: I am looking to make a trapezoid shaped pad for an inductor. So far, I created a rectangular pad and drew

Re: gEDA-user: Text in PCB elements

2010-12-09 Thread DJ Delorie
The current Element syntax doesn't allow for extra text in it, sorry. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Dev list [was: Random thoughts onthe future interface of PCB]

2010-12-09 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, -Original Message- From: geda-dev-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-dev-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of DJ Delorie Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 7:11 PM To: gEDA developer mailing list Cc: geda-user@moria.seul.org Subject: Re: gEDA-dev: gEDA-user: Dev list

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Dev list [was: Random thoughts onthe future interface of PCB]

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Clifton
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Re: gEDA-user: Trapezoid pads

2010-12-09 Thread George M. Gallant, Jr.
Thanks for the help. 10+ years of using PCB and I never had to create a custom footprint from scratch. George On 12/09/2010 01:42 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 18:53 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 17:23 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Dev list [was: Random thoughts onthe future interface of PCB]

2010-12-09 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Peter, -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Peter Clifton Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 9:04 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Cc: 'gEDA developer mailing list' Subject: Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Dev

gEDA-user: TRACKERS [was: Re: gEDA-dev: Dev list [was: Random thoughts onthe future interface of PCB]]

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 21:22 +0100, Bert Timmerman wrote: ... gEDA and friends can even keep the SF tracker system ... Actually, I have been looking quite seriously at the possibility of ditching SF trackers and moving all the history of bugs to Launchpad. I can do a fairly lossless export, and

Re: gEDA-user: TRACKERS [was: Re: gEDA-dev: Dev list [was: Random thoughts onthe future interface of PCB]]

2010-12-09 Thread Stephen Ecob
I'd welcome feedback from people who actively encounter and report bugs (especially in favour of the move ;)). I'd also welcome feedback from anyone who works with bug reports, test patches, merge code etc... (Doesn't have to be with gEDA / PCB, anything regarding Launchpad / SourceForge).

Re: gEDA-user: FUNDING (was: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-09 Thread myken
Hello all, On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 21:55 +1100, Stephen Ecob wrote: I'm aiming to finish University in a few months.. if people would like to fund work on the toporouter, then I would be pretty keen to work on it full time. Regards, Anthony Good, we've established that money could

Re: gEDA-user: FUNDING (was: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-09 Thread asomers
How about a Kickstarter project for the toporouter? Let Anthony make a proposal and put it on www.kickstarter.com, and then gEDA users can pledge donations. If it raises enough money by graduation (or whatever other deadline), then we all fund Anthony to work on it. If we don't raise enough,

Re: gEDA-user: TRACKERS [was: Re: gEDA-dev: Dev list [was: Random thoughts onthe future interface of PCB]]

2010-12-09 Thread DJ Delorie
If submitted patches don't receive enough attention, maybe there is something wrong with them. Maybe they don't work, introduce Nope, we just don't have a lot of time to review them. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Removing My* memory alllocation functions

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 11:26 +1100, Stephen Ecob wrote: Hi Peter, Here's my patch that should be equivalent to your patches 0001 followed by 0002. My patch is against GIT head as at commit 466b0183758ef3ca44623c43de60a233b175d2ad Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:43:19 + (13:43 +) I suggest you

Re: gEDA-user: Removing My* memory alllocation functions

2010-12-09 Thread Stephen Ecob
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 11:26 +1100, Stephen Ecob wrote: Hi Peter, Here's my patch that should be equivalent to your patches 0001 followed by 0002. My patch is against GIT head as at commit