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From: "Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)" <neurogeek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for (Common) Lisp shepherds
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:45:49
Message-Id: CAD3zpDnkDg5WVi2q9B-DEnUXguvZ65HwKwEtOFm9onqwLqVDRg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Looking for (Common) Lisp shepherds by Marijn
1 Hi Marijn,
2
3 Count me in. I've recently found a strong affection for Lisp, and
4 although Im a total Lisp noob, I can use this experience to learn more
5 about it. It would be pretty awesome.
6
7 Where do I start?
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9 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Marijn <hkBst@g.o> wrote:
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13 > Hi,
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15 > the Gentoo Lisp project is having trouble maintaining Common Lisp
16 > packages and to a lesser extent Scheme packages due to a lack of
17 > time/interest of the people currently working on that. Most of those
18 > packages are leaf packages, but some are not: mostly dev-scheme/guile
19 > and dev-lisp/sbcl (Steel Bank Common Lisp compiler) I think. Many
20 > Common Lisp packages have been maintained in our overlay (mostly
21 > thanks to Stelian Ionescu (fe[nl]ix)) including SBCL but not much has
22 > moved to main tree.
23 > With this email I am hoping to achieve (in order of preference) that
24 > either some people with an interest in the Lisp family of programming
25 > languages join our team to help us out, or some people (without said
26 > broader interest?) take over primary responsibility for non-leaf
27 > packages that are suffering, with the Lisp team taking a back seat.
28 >
29 > People interested in joining us can contact us on our mailing list
30 > <gentoo-lisp@l.g.o> or on freenode in our channel #gentoo-lisp.
31 >
32 > Marijn
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46 Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
47 Gentoo Developer