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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/19/2014 07:12 PM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> Happy birthday Dick.

Thanks and to others as well.

> I am not aware of the reasons that are making you decide to leave. Maybe you want to
> reduce your involvement in it instead of actually leaving the project.
> 
> Either way, it is your call.




Maybe you will get lucky again, and find someone who will make another
1450 commits in 7 years without compensation and *without special mention on the website*.


It just won't be me.



$ bzr log | grep -e dickelbeck -e Hollenbeck | wc -l




> 
> Cheers
> Fabrizio
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 08:54:19AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>     > >> Today is my 58th birthday, and it has become very clear to me recently that I am
>     really
>     > >> tired of looking at poorly written KiCad source code.  I am not long for this
>     project.
> 
>     Late cheers :D
> 
>     On bad code I would to make a distinction:
>     - Bad as in badly formatted, unreadable and so on (mostly subjective
>       issue)
>     - Bad as in bad style or using widely deprecated constructs like
>       a = b = 0; that's objectively bad
>     - Bad as in abusing data structures or constant sets (screams revenge)
> 
>     In reworking the track/via classes I found that a) it works just because
>     S_CIRCLE (a STROKE_T, for shapes) has (by sheer coincidence, I think)
>     the same value as VIA_THROUGH and b) the autoplacer/router substantially
>     put a DRAWSEGMENT in a TRACK. Using the shape member (the via
>     type) to keep the drawsegment shape...
> 
>     These things make me fond of REDEFINES in COBOL (more or less like the
>     union in C...)
> 
>     I just hope that's because it really ancient code never touched
>     before...
> 
>     --
>     Lorenzo Marcantonio
>     Logos Srl
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