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To summarize, we are not short on ideas. I think sometimes new users come into use of a project and just assume that the reason a feature is not there is because nobody has thought of it. However, more often than not, it is a lack of "qualified developer man-hours", which typically are not free. And when they do become available, need to be thought of as financial contributions in and of themselves, even no money has changed hands.
If money is the problem for not having qualified developers hours, why don't you developers ask users to financially contribute for a feature?
You decide one of the most critical/appealing missing feature, then you decide how much money implementing that would take (men hours * hourly rate) and then ask the community to donate for that. There are webapps that also helps you collecting the money, eg http://www.chipin.com/
I've seen this working in many other free software projects, I don't see why it couldn't work with KiCad.
I'd surely would donate towards push routing and distributed databases.. FV
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