[gentoo-lisp] Gentoo's Lisp Project status

[Panagiotis Christopoulos]

Hi all,

  I know most of you must be very frustrated with the current status of the
common-lisp and scheme herds, I apologize one more time for this but speaking
for myself my situation has not changed a bit the last years (too much work,
very little free time and no daily contact with gentoo stuff). I'm writing this
because I feel something must be done to give the spark again to the project. 

I will add the project in Staffing Needs page[1], but someone will have to train
new developers. I don't know if I can, I tried last year with Daniel but due to
lack of time (my side) he quit and wouldn't like see this happening again. 

I believe there are three major issues we should fix, one is bumping guile to a
recent version(guile-2), second is someone to finally review and push the
common-lisp-3.eclass and third is to review/cleanup the overlay a bit. I'm very
slowly working on the first one. In any case, someone needs to step up and start
fixing bugs and there is no hope for changes in my real life that will give me
more free time, any time soon. If you are already a developer and you're working
with lisp, please step up. If you're a user and want to help, mail me or
gentoo's recruiters, I'll mail them to let them know that we need mentors for
the Lisp Project. 

Any thoughts/complaints/ideas/issues, please reply to this. I know there are new
people in the list, their opinion matters the most. 

Last, I want to thank José María Alonso(nimiux), Andrey Grozin(grozin) and our
overlay's random committers(Erik, Cyprien and others) who 've been keeping the 
project alive the last year(s). 

Thank you all,

Panagiotis

[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo/Staffing_Needs

-- 
Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist )
    ( Gentoo Lisp Project )