From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Noah Lavine Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guildhall Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 21:09:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322791756 17194 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2011 02:09:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 02:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: simon.haines@con-amalgamate.net Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 02 03:09:12 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RWIYq-0001c4-1P for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:09:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45811 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWIYo-0005JS-O3 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWIYm-0005JN-2a for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWIYk-0006a2-PR for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:50065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWIYk-0006ZD-LU for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:09:06 -0500 Original-Received: by iapp10 with SMTP id p10so757273iap.0 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:09:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NE6kiAACktGogqoqVbXt1+p2hFO6V9Rdot+ZNzsv6Q8=; b=VbS1XzSeapD5Ur3wfgZtGclyKfG3j+s7Jre1qpCqlh7Q77xDCDNY1mZSjelo/5ZcqO jzB/66ygIrBwjIvsGtvT3lXkV+Xippchhug0IdyQuLSwrU+grL2Et9JdBJek0sbZK2ah 2aT/plMht7aLi0ZMgLpy+GdunbUJXVxkhtBwk= Original-Received: by 10.42.161.10 with SMTP id r10mr11375461icx.22.1322791745404; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:09:05 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.42.217.6 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:09:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: ZU44m1kyg1MLQmdXCspT211HTOw X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.169 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12950 Archived-At: Hello, I am certainly not an authoritative source, but it's been a while, so here is what I know. As far as I can tell, these questions haven't been decided yet. All we know is that we want a guildhall. However, having your packages in it would be great, so please do package them up and contribute them when it is ready. Thanks a lot for being willing to contribute. Noah On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Simon Haines wrote: > I'd like to start looking into getting some of my libraries ready for the > guildhall, and have a few quick questions. > > How are library namespaces going to be determined? I can see a couple of > approaches: > a) authoritative (contributors=A0apply to a central authority for a names= pace > upon library contribution), or > b) federated (contributors have a namespace, perhaps based on a login nam= e, > under which all their libraries live) > I guess it's a matter of taste: (import (guildhall db nosql mongodb (1)))= vs > (import (guildhall simonhaines mongodb (1))). Perhaps this is mere > bikeshedding and the best approach is 'anything goes'. > > What's the contribution process going to look like? I assume a 'contribut= e' > form on a web page somewhere, similar to PLaneT or CPAN. Some infrastruct= ure > may be required to support this: repository hosting and an announce maili= ng > list. On the latter points, the last I heard guildhall.gnu.org was being > sought for hosting, and I guess guile-user would be a good announce list. > > I think the guildhall would be a fantastic development for guile, and I'd > like to do all I can to get the ball rolling, from paper-chasing to helpi= ng > out with the dorodango integration. Just let me know how I can help. > Simon. > >