[PythonCAD] Post R36 plans

[Yagnesh Desai]

Gr8 so many people on pythonCAD mailing list

I see a very important input here.

2 types of contributers

First are those programmer and have some interest in CAD
while others are those CAD users who have some programming
inclinations. I am in second lot I am still with Python cad
since I felt with "python" I might be able to
contribute. I am yet to find way to contribute since lot
of these programming terms are not in my vocab.
If some way is deviced to help contribution from the cad
users inclind on programming it would be great achievement.

I think since PythonCAD has come to level where the Programmers
should contribute more in direction to help non-programmers
so that efforts by programmers start "MULTIPLYING".

Regards

Yagnesh




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To: pythoncad at python.org
From: "Art Haas" <ahaas at airmail.net>
Sent by: pythoncad-bounces at python.org
Date: 05/24/2007 10:59PM
Subject: [PythonCAD] Post R36 plans

Hi.

I made the thirty-sixth release about two weeks ago, then picked up some
contract work which kept me busy. I'd meant to mail the list sooner with
a post-release note.

It took far too long between the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth release,
and I'd like to avoid that happening again. There were a couple of
months where I got nothing accomplished, and I had a stretch of time
doing contract work which kept me busy but not with PythonCAD. It is
clear to me that more developers are needed to keep the project moving
at a decent pace and avoid long delays between releases. This note,
then, can be considered somewhat a 'call-for-help' note as well as a
'call-for-suggestions' as to what I can do to help encourage more people
to regularly contribute to PythonCAD development.

One thing I want to do, and I've said it before, is to replace the
centralized Subversion repository with a distributed SCM. I'm 99.999%
certain it will be git, as I use git for building the Linux kernel and
retrieving code from a variety of projects. One drawback to git is there
is not a native Windows client right now. Aside from the recent work
done to store the preferences in the APPDATA directory common to other
Windows programs I hear next to nothing from Windows users and don't
regularly get patches from them so I'm guessing they get PythonCAD via
the tarball releases and not Subversion.

Switching to a distributed SCM will hopefully encourage more developers
to invest some time with PythonCAD as their local copy of the tree will
be entirely theirs to play with - commit, delete, modify, etc. The
current centralized model requires people to send me patches, wait for
me to commit them, and then push my tree out. While I feel that this
model has worked well enough at the start of the project, it is time to
change and the availability of distributed open-source SCM packages
like git make a transition possible. I'll e-mail the list more info
regarding my plans and efforts shortly.

Please feel free to add your comments about what can be done to help
bring more developers into PythonCAD.

Art
--
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against
absurdities
the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every
wind.

-Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822
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