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+ back annotation
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+ Conclusions of the first thread
+DJ has another model
+where back annotation is only a subset of a bigger mechanism.
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+Many other users commented the thread, but no one else presented a
+plan that formed a complete system.
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+While there were some useful feedback about some details, no one explicitly
+said he'd be contributing the gschem part (... for any of the ideas floating
+around).
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+The thread is swamped in a chaotic set of random ideas and opinions - the
+same way as previous related threads usually did.
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Second thread
+In the second thread I will focus on actual contribution. For this,
+I'm narrowing down what exactly needs to be contributed:
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+- 1. minor UI changes, most probably in the C part of the gschem code.
+somehow ending up in the official repo; I'd prefer to avoid maintaining a
+fork of gschem (no, having the fork in git doesn't help).
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- 2. a scheme script that can be plugged into gschem and do real simple
+things like toggling flags for point 1, counting how many flags are
+toggled, warn the user about the counter is being non-zero; this script
+doesn't need to get into the official repo
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- 3. depending on whether we (me and my actual contributor who contributes
+code) go for push or pull, we need: a new action or menu or whatever that
+can trigger a pull or some means that can collect a change list pushed and
+then indicate that something's happened. It's not really a third piece of
+code, just a third piece of concept that is spread across 1 and 2.
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+First, I seek a contributor for exactly these 3 things. Alternatively if
+there's someone who is really willing to contribute actual code and spend
+time on this, I'm open to change parts of my plan if he has better ideas
+as long as the new approach still solves the actual problems I have.