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> You are treating developers as a some sort of object. We
> are people, we have lives, we do not sit here looking for work.

Please, don't feel offended :-). I'm a professional developer, and I'm used to
be treated as a "human resource". But I don't take that personally, I don't
feel my humanity is humiliated by that.

> We pick what we like to do and work on it if we have time.
> You don't simply get developers from XYZ project to work on ABC
> project, there is a lot of time spent relearning the codebase,
> changing tools, etc.

Of course. But if the projects cooperated, there could open more opportunity
for the developers, and some of them might get interested. But if they are
specialized for say QUCS, they won't contribute to other projects.

> That is true, but I don't see finding developers wanting to work on
> software they will never in a billion years are going to use
> themselves being easy. What's the point of it for them?

I think, that many developers just seek for an opportunity to realize their
ambitions somewhere. And if they saw that here is a possibility to create say
a plugin framework  waiting just for them, they could become interested. When
the framework gets created, they may loose interest, but the work will be
done.

> But that was CERN's developer roadmap which is a little out of date.
> Right now there's a real refactoring being performed by someone.
> And someone is adding raytracing to the viewer but that is not
> refactoring. But theres are no 3 active refactorings.

Maybe I wasn't precise, neither I have investigated what changes are being
done in each branch. Sorry. 
But there are three branches there:

lp:~mrluzeiro/kicad/kicad_new3d-viewer
lp:~cirilo-bernardo/kicad/3drefactor
lp:~xzcvczx/kicad/3drefactor

with many commits lately. Two of them are named "refactor" and the third one
is called "new". I wonder how these branches could be merged together. This is
what I had in mind. Again, I didn't mean to offend or discourage you.

   Martin.

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