<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2010-04-18, at 17:48, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Faré <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fahree@gmail.com" target="_blank">fahree@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> PS: after 2.0 is out, I'd like to resign from ASDF maintainership, to<br> focus on XCVB (help welcome on that, too). Is anyone volunteering to<br> replace me on ASDF?<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">After thinking about it, I am willing to step up as a possible replacement. The reasons why I would go that far are<br>* My own personal interest in ASDF working properly with ECL and other implementation philosophies.<br> * My belief that ASDF can and should be improved along the directions I have repeatedly mentioned: declarative system files, simpler user interface for common tasks (testing, building, packing, installing...).<br>* My will to make it simpler to systematically download, build and test existing software with different implementations [1]<br> <br>Reasons why I am still doubting:<br> * I have the feeling my points of view do not find a strong resonance here.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>As an ASDF user, you get all my moral support about improving ASDF along the directions you mentionned.</div><div><br></div><div>> [...]<br><blockquote type="cite">* ECL is and will continue to be my first priority in terms of time and resources.<br>* Very intermittent availability: CL is my hobby, not my job.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>We all have these constraints... :-(</div><br><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>__Pascal Bourguignon__</div><div><br></div></body></html>