Do we have any bugs in category 2.? Robby
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Robby Findler > <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu> >> wrote: >>>> - eopl >>>> Various people have changed this collection in the past few years >>>> (robby, eli, mflatt). Who should I assign bugs to? >>> >>> If no one is maintaining this code, would it be better for EOPL to >>> distribute a PLT file? >> >> I don't think so, no. If the choices are between kicking it out and >> putting me on, put me on. I don't really know where that code came >> from, tho, and I didn't write it. > > This doesn't really solve the question I started with, which is what > should I tell people who report bugs. > > As I see it, there are basically 3 options: > > 1. Someone who's already maintaining other things starts genuinely > maintaining the eopl collection. That sounds pretty unlikely to me, > and I don't think that's what you're volunteering for. > > 2. We keep it where it is, and don't maintain the code other than > fixing life-threating bugs. This is basically the status quo, and I > think it means people who report other, non-life-threatening bugs > should be informed that we're not maintaining the code, and thus their > bug isn't going to get fixed. > > 3. We take eopl out of the tree, and it's distributed/maintained by > Dan and Mitch (or by someone else). > > Choice 2 is reasonable, but we should be clear about it. > -- > sam th > sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev