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Hello fellow lispers, |
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I'm sending this mail to inform you about my wishfulness to start |
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procedures to clean up the main tree from many obsolete/problematic |
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packages[1] in order to provide some sort of easiness, working with |
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packages of the "lisp" herd. |
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The Lisp Team is extremely understaffed these days. Our leader |
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(hkBst) has been away for long, me, I'm also not very much around cause of real |
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life problems and our new member chiiph has his own problems and noone |
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to motivate him to work for gentoo. But there is hope, as soon as |
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Stelian(fe[nl]ix) is here and new people(like Nicolas(Fulax) and |
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Dmitry(dzhus)) step up and help. |
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I would like to move the packages of that list[1] to a temporary |
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overlay(eg. using |
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http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/lisp.git;a=summary , |
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gentoo's infra provided for us) after a month of being masked for |
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removal. My plan is as follows: |
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1) Discussing the matter in gentoo-lisp ml |
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2) if you don't have any serious considerations, sending mail to |
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gentoo-dev about removing these packages ("Last Rites" etc.)and masking |
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them in profiles |
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3) After a month period, removing them from the main tree and moving them |
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to the temporary overlay |
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4) Fixing/bumping/porting our lisp implementations |
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5) Fixing/removing old lisp eclasses and porting the new ones |
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6) Check the status of our official overlay |
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(http://repo.or.cz/w/gentoo-lisp-overlay.git) |
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7) Fix our Web page |
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8) Discuss what we're going to do with the old "Common lisp controller" |
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technology |
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9) Start porting/moving packages from the official overlay to the main |
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tree |
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Before anyone starts to complain about the whole thing, please have |
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in mind that the bug queue of obsolete/problematic packages is huge and our |
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team gets many complaints from gentoo's QA team. Also, it's difficult |
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for any of us to prioritize his work/contributions when he has to deal |
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with so many bugs/old packages. |
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[1] |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~pchrist/work/misc/treecleaning/official/final_list_10Aug10.txt |
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ps1: the list is also attached to this mail |
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ps2: I've cc'd the Treecleaners alias for informative purposes |
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-- |
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Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist ) |
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( Gentoo Lisp Project ) |
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