Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

[Frank Bergmann <frank.geda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Thu, 07 May 2009 09:34:58 -0400 schrieb Stuart Brorson:

> One major difference between gEDA and Fritzing is that Fritzing is a
> university project receiving sponsorship from various state governments
> in Germany.  That means that they have a paid team who can work on the
> software full time.  I just looked at their website again, and it seems
> that they have a team of 11+ people working on the software, including 3
> UI specialists.

It's a project of an university of applied sciences, so it's not an
"academic" project but for practitioner!

> GEDA is a collection of hobby hackers who work on the software for a
> variety of reasons, none of which involves receiving enough financial
> support to put bread on the table.  Therefore, it's hard for the gEDA
> Project to support the kind of sustained, organized effort required to
> create a polished, user-friendly software system.  But what we do have
> suits our purposes pretty well!

Look in the wiki (link below in other context):
  User-friendly interface follows:
  More users - more contributors.
  More users - more testers
  More users - more potential developers.
  ...
Most projects raises in its life time.

> ... Beyond that, everybody is encouraged to
> supply patches to raise up the newbie-friendly level of gEDA.

Look in the tracker - there are patches. Not all for raising up newbie-friedly
level but patches. For example:
Kai-Martin reported a bug (#1988982) and Bert did a patch (#2686963). Ready for
applying but - nothing happend. Mmh, need a "patch integrator" ...

I aggree to
http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_funding_sow#background_and_motivation
and the project should define concrete steps for improving the gui. But I'm
afraid the project needs a dicussion about the direction of such
improvements/modernizations.

> Cheers,
Frank.



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