Re: User contributions

[a r]

Steven,

What I can do is contributing IC design related contents (I'm an EE
working full-time on analog IC's) and do some minor software
development tasks. I have some experience in programming in Java and
several scripting languages but this may not be enough for the project
of this size.

So, yes, I'm going to actively participate in this development. I
think we should first go for low hanging fruits (the simple variant).
What resources are available?

FYI:
- I have just started with Electric, in the beginning I will probably
"contribute" more questions than answers.
- As a user of a commercial EDA tool I _am_ biased. I recognize some
good design decisions in Electric but its UI is really painful for me.
- I'm here privately.

\R.

On 6/4/07, Steven Rubin <address@hidden> wrote:
> At 12:44 PM 6/3/2007, you wrote:
> >Is there any plan for making user contributions to Electric
> >development easier? What is missing, is a community based platform for
> >exchanging designs, libraries, configurations, scripts and patches
> >that are not necessarily suitable for upstream.
> >
> >There are two ideas that look sensible to me:
> >- (simple) setting up an Electric wiki (or similar solution),
> >- (more complex) modifying Electric to run as a Web Start application
> >and integrating it with above mentioned wiki. It wouldn't have to be
> >as hard as it seems at first as Electric already has some relevant
> >features (implemented in java, built in revision control etc). This
> >could open a possibility to create a platform for exchanging
> >electronic designs (think YouTube for EE's)
>
> This all sounds like a good idea.  What we need is someone who can do
> these things.  Are you the one?
>
>     -Steven Rubin