<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello <span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;" class="">Faré,</span><div class=""><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098)" face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098)" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Thanks for this. I'd be interested in </span></font><font color="#000085" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">joining sharplispers. Does anyone know the process for that?</span></font></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><font color="#000085" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><font color="#000085" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I'm willing and likely capable of helping, but I don't have time to actively find a project to adopt. So a more central place for issues to be handled, regardless of project, is attractive.</span></font></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><font color="#000085" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><font color="#000085" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Maybe this could be a topic at the 2018 ELS in Marbella?</span></font></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><font color="#000085" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><font color="#000085" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">-Jason<br class=""></span></font></font><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Dec 2017, at 05:58, Faré <<a href="mailto:fahree@gmail.com" class="">fahree@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Many prominent CL developers have stopped maintaining their CL<br class="">projects, as I myself may do soon:<br class="">Nathan Froyd, Henrik Hjelte, Hans Hübner, David Lichteblau, Gabor<br class="">Melis, Nikodemus Siivola, etc.<br class=""><br class="">Some of their projects have lots of unanswered PRs on github an some<br class="">even break when compiled with a recent Quicklisp and/or the newest<br class="">ASDF. Many don't break yet, but issue warnings and may break in the<br class="">future.<br class=""><br class="">Some old farts like Gary King or I only do minimal maintenance of our<br class="">own projects, and we're mortal — I'm considering quitting even that<br class="">maintenance.<br class=""><br class="">Since I'm jumping ship, I won't be the one to fork these projects and<br class="">give them a new home (though I'm available to do it, for my consulting<br class="">fee, if there's enough of a market). Some of you CL professionals<br class="">should do it and/or fund it. <a href="https://github.com/sharplispers" class="">https://github.com/sharplispers</a> might be<br class="">a good home.<br class=""><br class="">—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• <a href="http://fare.tunes.org" class="">http://fare.tunes.org</a><br class="">If being against something is a phobia, then being for is mania.<br class="">Peace and understanding through slurs of mental illness.<br class="">Homomania, islamomania, etc.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>