Maintainers needed

Faré fahree at gmail.com
Sun Dec 17 04:58:37 UTC 2017


Many prominent CL developers have stopped maintaining their CL
projects, as I myself may do soon:
Nathan Froyd, Henrik Hjelte, Hans Hübner, David Lichteblau, Gabor
Melis, Nikodemus Siivola, etc.

Some of their projects have lots of unanswered PRs on github an some
even break when compiled with a recent Quicklisp and/or the newest
ASDF. Many don't break yet, but issue warnings and may break in the
future.

Some old farts like Gary King or I only do minimal maintenance of our
own projects, and we're mortal — I'm considering quitting even that
maintenance.

Since I'm jumping ship, I won't be the one to fork these projects and
give them a new home (though I'm available to do it, for my consulting
fee, if there's enough of a market). Some of you CL professionals
should do it and/or fund it. https://github.com/sharplispers might be
a good home.

—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org
If being against something is a phobia, then being for is mania.
Peace and understanding through slurs of mental illness.
Homomania, islamomania, etc.



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