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Subject:	Re: 3 noble quests for ldraw part creators - and useful ones, at that!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad
Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:14:50 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Burkhard Schloemer wrote: > While I'm on it, does anyone know if there will be a new parts update this year? Yes. > Lots of approved new and updated, much-needed parts on the tracker. Maybe our > LDraw-friends can't decide on new, obscure names for parts that are in the > partslist since adam and eve? :P The thing that's been holding up the updates is switching to the new licensed distribution. Since not all authors have signed into the new Contributor's Agreement, we've got to clean up the parts library -- probably by removing files. :/ Or getting more authors to sign the C.A. We've been holding off on doing any more updates until the library was cleaned. However, Chris and I have had some brief discussion that it's been too long since we had an update, we should go ahead and do one, even if it's not CA-compliant. So, hopefully, we'll have a new update sometime in the not-too-distant future. Steve

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		Re: 3 noble quests for ldraw part creators - and useful ones, at that!
(...) Would it be possible to create old-complete.exe/old...mplete.zip files, and make them available on ldraw.org under the old license, so that people could at least still download the files that get removed? Or better yet, create an install that (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: 3 noble quests for ldraw part creators - and useful ones, at that!
(...) I get the feeling that the activity at the parts tracker is quite low, too. Many parts stay there forever before getting reviewed. In case of hold votes with a few errors it takes forever for such parts to get fixed. Okay, I know that in the (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad)

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		Re: 3 noble quests for ldraw part creators - and useful ones, at that!
(...) Yeah I know - just wanted to see if someone actuallly reads this ;) Ok seriously I found the space wheel right after posting this request, hidden in the "files on hold" section. Just wanted to be sure, but lo and behold - searching by part (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad)

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