Re: What's to be considered on-topic for Guile mailing lists? (Re: The message chain with an happy ending)

[MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me>]

No worries. The remakr was not to point fingers at anybody.
I could do a better job by askid more questions too :P

MSavoritias

Blake Shaw <blake@reproduciblemedia.com> writes:

> I'm sorry, I'm the one supposed to be working on a rehaul of the documentation, but the review process has slowed this down. I started integrating
> everyones suggestions for the revamped map section after it was proposed in January and its almost done but not complete, and but I've been so
> busy the past few months its really my last priority and given the extent of the changes demanded its a lot of work.
>
> On Jul 6, 2023, at 02:53, MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me> wrote:
>
>  Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> writes:
>
>   On Wed, 05 Jul 2023, Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:
>
>   the Guile department isn't really alive, but that's just because of lack 
>  of applicants and interest in working on Guile itself, not because of a 
>  bad work environment.
>
>  On that matter, I do think lots of people are interested to work on
>  Guile core itself, myself included.  However, I find it difficult to
>  contribute in general and to have feedback.
>
> As a person learning guile right now for an xmpp client the
> documentation is the biggest barrier. Followed by practical examples and
> how to do stuff with libraries.
>
> For example we have https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/
> for common lisp which is something I had in mind with the second
> sentence.
>
> MSavoritias