Hi David, > My own current concern, as explained in Salzburg
I enjoyed your talk very much. > is to facilitate completely independent "zones of genius" for the kind of > half-user/half-programmer that embodies "power users" on the user list, > people developing complex solutions and engravers in Scheme. Yes. I’m 100% on board with that. But I personally need to see a complete list of granularized tasks/jobs before I can even figure out where *I* best fit in, never mind where someone I just met on-list might fit in. > It won't address the issues we are currently discussing with regard to > coordinating changes to the core that have the potential to affect > everyone I disagree: my whole point is to get a full, highly-detailed "map" of the entire ecosystem, core and non-core, so that the discussion can move forward in a more rational way. > With regard to the core, my main approach to the "zones of genius" > problem is not as much adding functionality but trying to modularize and > automate interactions between various typesetting elements in a manner > where they become more predictable and the tendency diminishes to have > things falling apart on one end as one adds on the other. That’s a *technical* goal. I’m working on an *organizational* goal [which, hopefully, fully supports your technical goal and eases the path to success]. Best, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: [email protected]
