If you want to hire a maintainer, consider that the average senior engineer costs about $200k per year, if you include benefits - and if you want a full time engineer, you'd have to provide them because you'd be replacing their regular job. gEDA just doesn't generate that kind of revenue.
As for time, we all have other committments - job, family, personal projects, etc. We fit in gEDA/PCB work as best we can. You can help by: 1. Being patient and understanding. 2. Stepping up to help as best you can. 3. Trying to find ways to improve our situation. Ranting about how bad we're doing isn't going to help us. Enough of that and we'll just move on like you're talking about. We have so few people working on code that it's very difficult to grow the developer pool, and easy to shrink it. We all have to work together to make things better. If you have a PCB patch you've written that's "gone stale" please feel free to keep pinging me about it. Every two weeks would be sufficient. If it's in the tracker, make sure you respond to any issues or questions posted there - if I've bumped the priority up, I agree it needs to get into the source base. 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 :-) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
