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. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user