Re: Maintenance and future of Guile
Ludovic Courtès writes: > If someone is interested, please get in touch with us! > > While Andy focuses on major improvements to the compiler and VM with a > long-term vision, I think it would be great to also have people on the > maintainer team focusing on more day-to-day operations: incremental > improvements, bug fixes, etc. I think we’re lucky that there’ve been a > number of talented contributors chiming in over the last couple of > years; let’s take advantage of this, at last! > Just want to chime in as a new Guile to say that while I'm still learning, I'm happy to work on any "chores" if there is guidance on how to do so. exploring guile has been half the fun so far. I know CHICKEN has a team of "janitors"; perhaps Guile could benefit from adopting a similar approach? -- “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”
Re: Maintenance and future of Guile
Hi, Blake Shaw skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> If someone is interested, please get in touch with us! >> >> While Andy focuses on major improvements to the compiler and VM with a >> long-term vision, I think it would be great to also have people on the >> maintainer team focusing on more day-to-day operations: incremental >> improvements, bug fixes, etc. I think we’re lucky that there’ve been a >> number of talented contributors chiming in over the last couple of >> years; let’s take advantage of this, at last! >> > > Just want to chime in as a new Guile to say that while I'm still > learning, I'm happy to work on any "chores" if there is guidance on how > to do so. exploring guile has been half the fun so far. > > I know CHICKEN has a team of "janitors"; perhaps Guile could benefit > from adopting a similar approach? Surely. For my part, while I won’t pretend to do actual work myself, I can dedicate time to mentor someone willing to step up. Ludo’.
Re: Maintenance and future of Guile
Hello Guilers, Jean Abou Samra skribis: > I see a number of similar cases on the mailing list. > > I understand the cost of reviewing and I know that > nobody is entitled to anything in the free software > world. However, I would like to voice the concern that > Guile's maintenance is not scaling, and the project > cannot attract new contributors if patches do not > make it to the main branch. If the current maintainers > need to drop their activity, it would be nice if > they could share maintainership so that at least > bug fixes can be applied. I agree and I apologize for the unpleasant situation: it’s clear that I haven’t been up to the task for several years already. I’ll discuss with Andy how I can formally leave the seat to someone with more energy, whom I’ll be happy to help learn practices and conventions. If someone is interested, please get in touch with us! While Andy focuses on major improvements to the compiler and VM with a long-term vision, I think it would be great to also have people on the maintainer team focusing on more day-to-day operations: incremental improvements, bug fixes, etc. I think we’re lucky that there’ve been a number of talented contributors chiming in over the last couple of years; let’s take advantage of this, at last! Thanks, Ludo’.
