>John Wiseman's list includes about 100 applications with ASDF-INSTALL >problems. If each gardener works on about 10 applications, about 10 >gardeners would be needed, especially considering that some problems >are present only on certain operating systems. > >Do you think it's better to have a single champion, possibly me, that >recruits other gardeners? If so, I would ask all those willing to >contribute to add the lists of packages they plan to work on at the >ALU Wiki page, together with sketches of what work they propose to >do--something like my sample entry at the project page. > > I would be very interested in this project, but looking over the list, I am starting to realize that this is a bigger problem than taking a library, fixing a bug or two, and submitting a patch. Maybe you guys all already figured it out, but I am itching to get involved in a project, and this is the first one I'm looking at.
With many of the errors being an artifact of Wiseman's implementation choice, different implementations would generate different lists of errors. Packages that Wiseman successfully installed may not work on other implementation-platform combinations. (see the 404 error trying to fetch SB-BSD-SOCKETS) This makes me think that we really can't do a "you-pick-10" model, because this is a hyperdimensional problem. Perhaps we could start with a matrix of implementation-platforms and packages and begin with a more accurate assessment of the situation. Newbies like me could volunteer for certain platform/implementation combinations and test packages and fill in the matrix. At that point, we could start dividing up the workload for addressing the issues. If my newbieness is showing, please correct me! -Josh Stone- _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
