Re: [gentoo-lisp] Stepping down from Lisp Project Lead and more

[Chema Alonso]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 09:55:18PM +0300, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I just wanted to let you know that due to obvious reasons, I can stay Lead to
> the Lisp Project no more. I've been devaway for many years, but this is not the
> case. I joined the Project when I was University student. At that time I had a
> lot of free time (the golden age in Greece, just before our famous "crisis" hit
> us) and was playing with AI projects so I wanted to learn Lisp etc. Nowadays,
> I've become just a workaholic IT employee that still uses Gentoo for many
> projects but not anything related to Lisp (sadly I even found more interest in
> Prolog).
>
> I have very little free time, but still want to help the Gentoo Project. I want to step
> down (may even remove my self from scheme/common-lisp herds) and see if I can
> work on some other area (base-system or cluster projects) where  I still use
> packages.
>
> I will try though, to fix guile because someone has to do this.
>
> People who want to help the Lisp Project (nimiux, ulm, grozin & power users)
> shall gather to look into the future of the project. I said last time that I would add
> an entry in Staffing Needs[1], but forgot. I'll do it as soon as I write some
> good text for it.
>
> For anyone who reads this and wants to help, if you are an AI student or PhD at some
> University, you work on Lisp or have an interest in the Lisp field, please step up
> and start helping. Also, if you're an upstream developer, start using Gentoo and
> you will see that it is the perfect platform for development/testing.
>
> Last, I want to apologize for not being around and for letting the bugzilla be
> in such mess. I'm sorry guys.
>
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo/Staffing_Needs
>
> ps. I'm sending this to -dev too because everyone should know about the current
> status of lisp in gentoo.
>
> --
> Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist )
>     ( Gentoo Lisp Project )
>

Hi,

Same here, almost no free time to contribute to the project. I still
bump some packages, contribute to some bugs and push some fixes to the
lisp overlay but I hardly can read email and irc once or two days
per week.

I could take the project leader role but I think my name would be just
a placeholder to substitute yours.

Sure we need more people involved but I can't think a way to get more
manpower.

Thanks for all your work.