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

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 :-)


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