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Subject: Re: [gentoo-lisp] Gentoo's Lisp Project status
From: Chema Alonso <nimiux () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2014-10-27 20:59:56
Message-ID: 20141027210114.GA9114 () filladhoo
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 08:01:55PM +0300, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know most of you must be very frustrated with the current status of the
> common-lisp and scheme herds, I apologize one more time for this but speaking
> for myself my situation has not changed a bit the last years (too much work,
> very little free time and no daily contact with gentoo stuff). I'm writing this
> because I feel something must be done to give the spark again to the project.
>
> I will add the project in Staffing Needs page[1], but someone will have to train
> new developers. I don't know if I can, I tried last year with Daniel but due to
> lack of time (my side) he quit and wouldn't like see this happening again.
>
> I believe there are three major issues we should fix, one is bumping guile to a
> recent version(guile-2), second is someone to finally review and push the
> common-lisp-3.eclass and third is to review/cleanup the overlay a bit. I'm very
> slowly working on the first one. In any case, someone needs to step up and start
> fixing bugs and there is no hope for changes in my real life that will give me
> more free time, any time soon. If you are already a developer and you're working
> with lisp, please step up. If you're a user and want to help, mail me or
> gentoo's recruiters, I'll mail them to let them know that we need mentors for
> the Lisp Project.
>
> Any thoughts/complaints/ideas/issues, please reply to this. I know there are new
> people in the list, their opinion matters the most.
>
> Last, I want to thank José María Alonso(nimiux), Andrey Grozin(grozin) and our
> overlay's random committers(Erik, Cyprien and others) who 've been keeping the
> project alive the last year(s).
>
> Thank you all,
>
> Panagiotis
>
> [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo/Staffing_Needs
>
> --
> Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist )
> ( Gentoo Lisp Project )
>
Thanks back pchrist,
I'd like to work in moving common-lisp-3.eclass and some overlay packages
to the tree, but I am very busy right now. I've marked myself as devaway but I
think I can get some time to contribute on this. If someone wants to work in
this, please, reply to this message.
Regards.
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