Maintainers needed

[Vsevolod Dyomkin]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 6:58 AM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Is there a confirmation from all of the listed (and also unlisted) persons
on the fact that they have stopped maintaining their stuff altogether? As
you say below, there are a number of people who are not very active, but
continue accepting occasional patches - that's, actually, very little work
given the stability of most of their important projects that the community
relies upon. I know about Nathan, and the majority of his projects are
already taken care of by sharplispers.


> 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.
>

It would be great to see a list of those projects to be able to assess the
scale of the issue.


>
> 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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