Gr8 so many people on pythonCAD mailing list I see a very important input here.
2 types of contributers First are those programmer and have some interest in CAD while others are those CAD users who have some programming inclinations. I am in second lot I am still with Python cad since I felt with "python" I might be able to contribute. I am yet to find way to contribute since lot of these programming terms are not in my vocab. If some way is deviced to help contribution from the cad users inclind on programming it would be great achievement. I think since PythonCAD has come to level where the Programmers should contribute more in direction to help non-programmers so that efforts by programmers start "MULTIPLYING". Regards Yagnesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ----- To: [email protected] From: "Art Haas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05/24/2007 10:59PM Subject: [PythonCAD] Post R36 plans Hi. I made the thirty-sixth release about two weeks ago, then picked up some contract work which kept me busy. I'd meant to mail the list sooner with a post-release note. It took far too long between the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth release, and I'd like to avoid that happening again. There were a couple of months where I got nothing accomplished, and I had a stretch of time doing contract work which kept me busy but not with PythonCAD. It is clear to me that more developers are needed to keep the project moving at a decent pace and avoid long delays between releases. This note, then, can be considered somewhat a 'call-for-help' note as well as a 'call-for-suggestions' as to what I can do to help encourage more people to regularly contribute to PythonCAD development. One thing I want to do, and I've said it before, is to replace the centralized Subversion repository with a distributed SCM. I'm 99.999% certain it will be git, as I use git for building the Linux kernel and retrieving code from a variety of projects. One drawback to git is there is not a native Windows client right now. Aside from the recent work done to store the preferences in the APPDATA directory common to other Windows programs I hear next to nothing from Windows users and don't regularly get patches from them so I'm guessing they get PythonCAD via the tarball releases and not Subversion. Switching to a distributed SCM will hopefully encourage more developers to invest some time with PythonCAD as their local copy of the tree will be entirely theirs to play with - commit, delete, modify, etc. The current centralized model requires people to send me patches, wait for me to commit them, and then push my tree out. While I feel that this model has worked well enough at the start of the project, it is time to change and the availability of distributed open-source SCM packages like git make a transition possible. I'll e-mail the list more info regarding my plans and efforts shortly. Please feel free to add your comments about what can be done to help bring more developers into PythonCAD. Art -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822 _______________________________________________ PythonCAD mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad _______________________________________________ PythonCAD mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad
