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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Opendous Support wrote:
> Dick,
>
>   That sounds really useful.  Thanks for the FAQ posting on footprints as well.
>
>   Please consider some sort of "Get Started" or "KiCAD and LaunchPad
> and YOU" tutorial which gives a quick overview of how the facilities
> are intended to be used.  I am new to LaunchPad and it is a very
> "busy" interface.  It seems you intend to have core and subsidiary
> developers supported on the same platform but the platform seems
> heavily skewed towards the core developers.  If it is too difficult
> for small contributors to get their bearings you will keep getting
> spammed with neophyte questions or they will give up and go away.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt,
> Opendous Inc. - Open and Stupendous Electronics
>   

Hi Matt,

Nice to know you, from:

        https://launchpad.net/~opendous-support

While we are offering ways to improve dealing with each other, might I 
suggest that you record your name somewhere in your launchpad 
identification.

Unless you are posting everyday, it will be difficult to remember your 
name unless you tell us your name in your id.

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Regarding your suggestions, volunteers are welcome.  Here is what I have 
time for now:

Folks can post patches to the mailing list as usual.  Folks can create 
their own launchpad repos.  Folks can go through the bzr tutorial I 
stated a couple of days ago.

Folks can establish confidence within the team and be admitted to 
kicad-testing-committers.


Enough?  IMO, anymore would entail reading more here than must be read 
about bzr and launchpad to actually use it.  Other volunteers may have a 
different opinion and are welcome to improve the overall experience 
anyway they can.


Thanks,

Dick