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# pcb-rnd - contribution

If you are interested to help out, please contact the lead developer.

## Contributing as a developer

The project is lead in an autocratic way by Igor2.

Developer freedom taken away:

- the basic concept of librnd is set and won't change
- the toolchain is chosen, and won't change; the usual hot topics: svn, scconfig, C.
- don't add code that restricts usability for others; add code that increases usability for some; thus prefer to add code in plugins!

Developer freedom promptly granted:

- svn commit access from day 0
- work together in trunk/, not alone in a branch
- librnd has a strong plugin support; want to implement a strange/controversial feature? In a plugin, almost anything goes
- especially in plugins, work on whatever you want, even if noone else needs that feature

Coding style/indentation: there's an unified style in core and core plugins. If you work on those parts, try to stick to it. If you are working on a new plugin, it's still the preferred style but you can use a different style. However, the rule is that if someone else starts hacking that part too, he is allowed to convert the code to the unified format; but unified format can not be converted to anything else. So it's a one way process which long term grants unified style while not demotivates a plugin developer by forcing a style on him in the early, "when the bulk of the code is written" phase.