Re: gEDA-user: Dev list [was: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB]

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On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:27:31AM +0000, Peter TB Brett wrote:

<snip> 

> If I remember correctly, a major factor in the closure of the gEDA-dev list 
> was that the signal to noise ratio became very low.  There were several 
> people, few of whom *ever* submitted patches, loudly and rudely telling the 
> people who *were* writing code and having ideas how their approach was wrong, 
> the design was wrong, their ideas were wrong, how dare you change anything, 
> you *must* do it *my* way, etc etc etc.  It got to the point that it was 
> actively *hindering* development, because it was very off-putting to the actual 
> developers.
> 
> Although the discussions on gEDA-dev are less frequent now, at least they are 
> usually quite constructive.
> 
> Perhaps the time has come to reconsider the role of and access to the gEDA-dev 
> list?  How can we ensure that it doesn't collapse into an unproductive 
> bikeshedfest again?
> 

It may be rude to state, but there are about 3 or 4 persons at most, who
cause this sort of frustration on the user mailing list and on irc. I
would say if you can set up some sort of simple, short but clear policy
about what topics are for the dev list, and ban only those 3-4 persons,
opening the dev list would be possible.

Regards,

Tibor Palinkas



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