From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: new maintainers for guile libs Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:00:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87zgtxpggk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210630045758.GA121598.ref@spikycactus.com> <20210630045758.GA121598@spikycactus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14180"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: guile-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:90aVEzoqzUjIwCkkpt5Kb0saCHo= Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 04 14:02:00 2021 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 1mBFax-0003Z2-SY for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:01:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58572 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mBFaw-0000mR-HA for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2021 08:01:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mBFZy-0008J4-HE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2021 08:00:58 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:55802) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mBFZw-0004Ua-Na for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2021 08:00:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mBFZs-0002EY-Jn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:00:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Followup-To: poster X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 17 Thermidor an 229 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -26 X-Spam_score: -2.7 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NICE_REPLY_C=-1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:20813 gmane.lisp.guile.user:17668 Archived-At: Hi Mike, (Catching up on email…) Mike Gran skribis: > Well 2021 has been a strange time for me as it has been for many. At > the beginning of 2021, I had the free time and the good health that > allowed me to imagine being a real contributer again, but, stuff has > changed. I’m sad to read this; I hope you’ll recover soon and feel energized, including to hack the good hack. > So there are a few libraries in the Guile ecosystem I've worked on, > and I'm hoping someone else might be interested in owning them > henceforth. > > Roughly in order of maintainability, from simple to complex, these are > > - guile-aspell: a very simple binding to the Aspell spellcheck > library. This would be an easy task, since it is a Guile-only > binding with no C, and aspell rarely changes > - guile-curl: a C-based but straight-forward binding the the cURL API. > - guile-ncurses: a C-based binding for NCurses, libpanel, and libmenu. It > is a bit convoluted bcause the memory model for ncurses it iself > quite strange. > > Then there a couple of very obscure and little used libraries that I could > punt on, but, I don't really expect any interest > > - guile-plotutils: draw plots in Guile using the plotutils backend > - zile-on-guile: a version of the zile editor, replacing its tiny LISP > interpreter with Guile. > > Guile-GI is a special case because at this point, I'm probably not the > prinmary contributor. But it could use more contributers and could use > a discussion about how to move it forward. I still hope to contribute > as I can. I won’t commit to anything (I’d do a poor job), but these are all useful pieces of software and I hope someone picks them up! Thanks, Ludo’.