From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MSavoritias Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: What's to be considered on-topic for Guile mailing lists? (Re: The message chain with an happy ending) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:30:18 +0300 Message-ID: <87r0pmbcg5.fsf@fannys.me> References: <26550559-5a4d-2f7e-99a6-e471eeaeaddc@telenet.be> <252c4ca8-94b7-7b1b-80de-7c50768ba581@telenet.be> <4af644ac-5707-dd76-a7d3-55853a9a2ac6@telenet.be> <87edlmcvfb.fsf@laura> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4186"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.10.2; emacs 28.2 To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 05 21:53:38 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qH8ZG-0000s1-2m for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:53:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qH8YZ-0006cE-Dd; Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:52:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qH4Vb-0000z1-Fg for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:33:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.webarch.email ([81.95.52.48]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qH4VZ-0006vm-QX for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:33:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Mailerdaemon) with ESMTPSA id 3ADB71A8CC1C for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2023 16:33:18 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=msavoritias.me; s=20210930; t=1688571199; h=from:subject:date:message-id:to:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to: references; bh=tcaMg8JvQJvXZM22v8tpoFA0y+uxXrVNw35mxgjgCS0=; b=dBIeDt/7PHvEAKdhXiWsd3yUXlarrx7XYlgvApTFgvfb8Fn3d4bkIwQCM8bp1Gf8yPZHeq cfJUm2QUN0fJXUgDAsuokxYcQXv3DwtZHCnxlZq3TvZgIY+P2yZQmJX3868loGoOR4cbLW 2yolwkB1al4dALxgKKDPMGXrhLq+JQ9Jf6zJlhVRvRGQEVyABPmeNVgQrlswthfXJFokn8 1G/kSVnt10c5d/vwi3A9m0fjo5xbk/tNo9tBt26FY59XAIMAV8g4INEZX0VttsidsWDzgP RDL3fFVIaLmicNTS80Fxnasv7Oo1xpTd4bFGcIlr+OjtlzZ1k58WLoocVXimmg== In-reply-to: <87edlmcvfb.fsf@laura> X-Last-TLS-Session-Version: TLSv1.3 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=81.95.52.48; envelope-from=email@msavoritias.me; helo=mail.webarch.email X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_INVALID=0.1, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:52:52 -0400 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:21889 Archived-At: Olivier Dion writes: > On Wed, 05 Jul 2023, Maxime Devos 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