Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer writes: > Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> writes: > >> Mathieu Lirzin writes: >> >>> Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> writes: >>> >>>> Mathieu Lirzin writes: >>>>> >>>>> You should bring that on emacs-devel where most people seem to think >>>>> that a 'git commit -m "..."' with the actual diff is self explanatory. >>>>> :) >>>> >>>> I'm afraid to. The emacs list has had strong responses moving between >>>> tremendous enthusiasm for the guile-emacs work to outright hostility. I >>>> think there are only a couple of hostile people, but they are vocal. >>>> I'd prefer to have the next stage of things merged before I reach out >>>> again. >>>> >>>> But maybe I'm being irrational. I could probably still ask for help. >>> >>> I was implicitly referring to a current discussion on emacs-devel: >>> >>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-03/msg00180.html >>> >>> Sorry for not giving the context of my sarcasm at first. >>> >>> Anyway, thanks for giving guile-emacs some love! :) >> >> I saw that conversation right after your email and I still didn't pick >> up on it. Heh! >> >> Someone from #emacs might actually help though! (I'm not going to name >> them and put them on the spot.) > > Don't know if you mean me, but in any case I also have it in my mid-term > TODO to start working on guile-emacs. Life-Status report:
Great! I didn't mean you, so maybe we have overlap. Really, whoever steps up to do it, great! > Expect a few more months of "downtime" on my side. (Recreational > purposes, though I'm available for emergency situations like if 'guix > pull' stops working. :P) After that, I'll have a time-frame of maximally > one year during which I'll be free from occupational work, in which time > I have to juggle my time between looking into how to best go on with my > occupational life (the software industry is awful and I wish to be > politically active in some way but programming is my only skill), and > working on various software projects including Guix contributions, Guile > contributions, RnRS/SRFI contributions, and Guile-Emacs. > > The Guix and Guile contributions I have on my TODO aren't very big so > hopefully Guile-Emacs can get a good amount of time allocated to it. > OTOH, it will need a ton of tedious learning on my side if I have to > work on nontrivial C code, and especially the BDW-GC. All in all don't > set your expectations too high please. If more experienced hackers can > work on Guile-Emacs, that would be ideal. Great! guile-emacs could definitely use the help. Thanks for your interest, and if you do have time, your time! :) - Chris