I'd like it if it were possible for other developers to not necessarily take over the project on CL directory but instead have a means of submitting patches and usage notes/examples/howtos relating to a project. The CL directory could act as the meeting ground for the projects that it houses, or at least a journal of information relating to projects.
I know this requires additional work in the framework. Its just that if I were using CL-NCURSES and someone else was adding additional features/bug fixes to that project then I'd like a standard way/place of/to learning about those modifications (not every project has a mailing list). I know there was some mention that the directory would eventually help house/mirror projects. Can we start by having it be place to store this sort of data? I see this as slightly more than just notes/comments. Brandon On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:13:08PM -0800, Peter Seibel wrote: > My understanding was folks were proposing a one-month time limit for > the project maintainer of record to *respond* to the email, not > necessarily that folks have to check in something every month. The > point is, as I understand it, that if I see a project that I'd like > to submit patches to and it doesn't have any obvious activity going > on, I drop a note to the c-l.net guys and ask them to ping the > current maintainer. If the maintainer replies with, "Yes, I'm alive > and still care about the project" then they get to keep it. It's only > if there's *no* response for a month that the keys to their project > might be given away to someone who's showing more interest in it. And > the original maintainer can always show up later and say, "Hey, I was > out of the country for a year and away from email, what happened?!" > and get their project back in the state it was in when they left. Of > course if in that year the new owner has made a bunch of changes they > may want to fork. Which could happen now; the new policy seems aimed > at preventing needless forks, mostly in the interest of not confusing > would-be users of these libs. > > -Peter > > -- > Peter Seibel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ > Practical Common Lisp * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
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