Re: gEDA-user: Information on PCB

[Jared Casper <jaredcasper@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Ineiev <ineiev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OTOH my experience with PCB suggests that your work is not ignored if
> it is not ignored by yourself, and if even you don't need it then it
> is probably OK that it is ignored by other people.
>

Sure, but it takes at least a bit more effort to make a patch ready to
submit to the project (make the code more general purpose as opposed
to a quick hack, clean up the code, test with other hid's/workflows,
write out a good commit log, wait for sourceforge's slow pages, etc.)
 And I think if developers discourage their users from doing this (by
visibly ignoring patches from others) they are missing out on a vast
resource that is a huge part of open source software.

Also, if I see a problem with the program, I'm definitely more
motivated to fix it if I feel like I could fix it for everyone that
uses the program, not just me.  If I know it's just going to be for
me, there's a good chance I'll just learn to work around it and move
on, and that kind of attitude in the users isn't going to help in
making the program better.

> Kind regards and BTW thanks for your patchs,

You're welcome. :)

And btw, I felt a little weird making this point as most of the few
patches I have sent in have been applied, so I can't really complain
much.  However, I figured I would offer the suggestion because I still
feel reluctant to spend much time on more because of all the others
that weren't applied (or explicitely rejected) because I feel like
it's a bit of a crap shoot, and if I feel that way, I'm sure I'm not
the only one.

Jared


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