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Phase 3: community requested features (2016)

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Overlapping phase 2 there was feature poll . If there are enough active users/testers for a feature, it gets implemented in @@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ directions will be mainly set by their need.

Phase 2: major cleanups (2015..2016)

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In the first phase I was mostly implementing a set of small features and fixes. As I got more familiar with the code base, I decided to bite the bullet and do some refactoring: @@ -88,6 +90,7 @@

Phase 1: At the beginning... (2013..2014)

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I use PCB a lot on various computers. I used to try to join the mainstream development with small contribution (minor patches) and was active on IRC and the mailing lists for a while. However, it didn't work out well, @@ -116,6 +119,7 @@

  • no stable release for years; maintaining a set of patches (like pcb-gpmi) and porting them to new releases is too much hassle +

    I was pondering a fork for years. The trigger was that one day I've upgraded Debian on my lab computer and the new version of PCB came with gl enabled; this made PCB absolutely unusable (had to wait like 10 seconds for a scroll) while @@ -124,6 +128,7 @@ install from source (but I have too many computers for that). My decision was to set up my own .deb but then build it from a fork (it's not much of an extra effort), so I can add some of the features I miss in daily use. +

    My plans with this fork: