Re: Maintenance and future of Guile

["Aleix Conchillo Flaqué" <aconchillo@gmail.com>]

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I'm not sure how all this ended up.

But, I would encourage and love for Maxime Devos to be a Guile maintainer.
Always great feedback in Guile and other projects (like Fibers) and I
really feel Guile would benefit a lot from their contributions.

Just a thought.

Aleix

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 6:27 AM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> skribis:
>
> > On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> skribis:
> >>
> >>> I would also like to contribute in some meaningful way.  In what way
> >>> someone with none wizard knowledge of Scheme can contribute the most
> to the
> >>> project?
> >>
> >> Triage of bugs and patches is always welcome I guess, and communicating
> >> what needs to be applied/addressed first to whoever can actually commit
> >> it.  That’s one possible way to help.
> >
> > Where can this be done?  I know that Guix is using debbugs, but do Guile
> > does the same or is it all tracked on Savannah?
>
> It’s happening on debbugs.gnu.org as well.  Debbugs this is easier to
> work with via Emacs debbugs.el, which is nice if you already use Emacs
> but otherwise unfortunate.
>
> > Also, any way to help on the C side?
>
> There isn’t much happening on the C side.  Maxime Devos submitted
> patches adding bindings for openat(2) and friends that are unfortunately
> still pending review.
>
> Patches that add POSIX bindings and similar to libguile should in
> general be relatively easy to review (though the openat(2) one may be
> trickier because it’s a central functionality and we’d rather get the
> interface right.)
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
>

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