I don't want to speak for Jürg, but AFAIK he is just really busy right now and has no intention of abandoning Vala. I seem to remember him saying he thought he would be busy through November, but hoped to have some more time to dedicate to Vala in December.
I think pancake is on the right track here. IMHO we should try to fix all of the non-core issues we can, so that when Jürg has some time he can spend it in the core. Of course, if people want to submit patches to bugzilla which fix issues in the core, I'm sure that would be appreciated as well. > > - Complete the documentation of the language (non-c#, non-java tutorial) > > - there are some things not explained in the tutorial, like the stack > > allocated arrays, etc.. Great idea. The tutorial is a wiki, so if you notice something missing please add it :) > > - we can probably start writing a book about vala, like the > > parrot/rakudo people is doing > > http://rakudo.org/node/58 I don't know what state it's in, but there is a wikibook at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vala_Programming All that's needed is someone willing to write. > > - Documentation for CCodes Yes, this is on my todo list. I intend to start a page on the wiki which will list all available attributes, arguments, and their function. /Vala/Attributes, maybe. > > - Fix VAPIs (I have seen some typos like 'Ccode' and I have some local > > updates for curses.vapi f.ex..) Please file bug reports for these issues. I am willing to fix bugs in bindings, and try to do it fairly quickly. Many (most?) of the currently outstanding bindings bugs at this point are really waiting on something else before they can be fixed. I'm quite horrible about reading the mailing list, and I can't promise that will change, but I do try to keep an eye on bugzilla. As for the 'Ccode' issue you mentioned... commit b8104230231cd9730666870a474db33d479f4b2a Author: Evan Nemerson <[email protected]> Date: Wed Dec 2 13:55:55 2009 -0800 Fix some typos in CCode attributes. > > - Review/report bug reports Absolutely. I will try to make an effort to triage non-bindings bug reports. > > - Submit patches to solve the bugs Yes, of course ;) I'm not convinced we need a hackathon to get these issues resolved, but if other people feel differently I'm willing to participate. -Evan Nemerson _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
