Hi Ales, Thank you very much for the info, it clarifies fully about gEDA's RFCs policy. I fully respect your view and judgement on that.
I did not read Peter C's previous message "gEDA-dev: Spice SDB slotting fix". and unfortunately I did not realize it would have something in it that would affect Verilog/VHDL netlisters. I really should spend time reading as many messages as I can. Best Regards, Paul Tan -----Original Message----- From: Ales Hvezda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gEDA user mailing list <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 3:30 pm Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Users of verilog and VHDL gnetlist backends -=(BREAKAGE IN 1.4.0)=- [snip] >IMHO, if you intend to change globally something, then there should be >clearly posted RFCs for them, so that people do not have to check >every changes you made which should normally not affect them. Actually PeterC did post a RFC and it was more than sufficient: http://archives.seul.org/geda/dev/Jan-2008/msg00058.html Everybody is free to submit their comments to such threads. I'm not about to institute a full blown "RFC required policy" for every change that might affect users. The verilog/vhdl breakage was unfortunate, but its just a fixable bug (live and learn; and we need to improve the test suite). I'm not going to worry about it. Also, _not_ one person complained about this breakage during the 1.3.x cycle so that make me worry even less. The only time I would like to see RFC is when developers want to change something drastic. And I'm not exempt from that either. It is not an accident that the current active developers have push/write access to the repository. I trust them all to do the right thing(s) and no evil. [snip] >I would like to suggest a forum post "geda-RFC" similar to the >"geda-announce", so that the RFCs which have global significance >are clearly visible to everyone. This is also a good way to >avoid unintended mistakes. > That's a bit on the overkill side. We have the mailing lists and wiki for that purpose. -Ales _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AIM(R) Mail ! - http://webmail.aim.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
