> Agreed, and I had a similar experience. I was hoping to get a review or just > some comments on a couple of patches I submitted (3114991, 3117075). Now I > can understand that it was probably in an off beat area and not the topic du > jour, so I went ahead and posted it to the patches tracker. No comments > there either, and I went to some effort to comment my code well, tried to > match the formatting as best I could, and even commented the hunks in the > patch set.
>From looking at your patch I can see that you've put in some substantial work there, and can understand your disappointment. > I also contacted Stuart Brorson directly and while he said he would look at > the patches he also said: > >> "As you might imagine, I'm busy with a number of other projects, so I >> haven't had much time to devote to gEDA for a long time." > > I think a lot of would be contributors are inspired to make improvements but > get stymied when their first offering falls on deaf ears. As a PCB developer I'm acutely aware that developer time is in very short supply - the lead developers are very busy guys who squeeze in time for PCB as best they can. I know almost nothing about the development of gschem, but my perception is that gschem developer time is even more scarce - I'd guess there are 20 emails on this list about PCB for every email about gschem. > I know there has > to be a balance here, but I feel that there should always be someone in the > dev group that can take the time to respond and give some constructive > feedback. I feel the same way - but I recognise that there currently isn't enough gschem developer time for this to be the case. I'm sorry I can't help more, but I do suggest is that you stay on the list - when the developers do come back raise the issue again. Oh, and of course gEDA is free software - if the developers disappear into a black hole you can always start your own branch and become your own maintainer. Public GIT repositories like repo.or.cz make it very easy to host a project. I made my own branch of PCB there a few weeks ago when I wanted to indulge in some source code butchery that the PCB lead developers wouldn't want to touch with a barge pole :) Setting the whole thing up took less than a day. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
