From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: development goals Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:57:33 -0300 Message-ID: References: <87hc90u9lb.fsf@gnu.org> <49dd78620809061545h1a1aa8e4t8e4c10772ab5b137@mail.gmail.com> <49dd78620809071303r148f2aedq6f5b9f3cd4bef3d2@mail.gmail.com> <87vdx7t01d.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220882447 23208 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2008 14:00:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:00:47 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 08 16:01:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KchJ7-0003ih-J6 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:01:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46440 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KchI7-0006nm-79 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KchGx-0006Rs-0N for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:59:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KchGu-0006R4-Vn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49028 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KchGu-0006R1-KF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56163 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KchGt-0006QH-T9 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KchGl-0007JM-9e for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:59:07 +0000 Original-Received: from 201.80.3.52 ([201.80.3.52]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:59:07 +0000 Original-Received: from hanwen by 201.80.3.52 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:59:07 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.80.3.52 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) In-Reply-To: <87vdx7t01d.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7626 Archived-At: Ludovic Courtès escreveu: >> You might construe that I would like to turn Guile development into >> LilyPond development. That is not necessarily the case, but I keep >> misunderstanding what people expect in this community. I am assuming >> that developers in general are interested in a more lively and more >> rapid evolution of Guile, but everytime I see habits and policies that >> seem contrary to that goal. > > How many people fix bugs reported to `bug-guile'? Believe me, spending > time doing this makes you feel reluctant to large unmotivated changes. Good point. I've just added myself to that list. >> Then again, with all the back & forth porting of changes between 1.8 >> and head, it's difficult to tell what is in 1.8 and what is not. > > Surely you'll enjoy it: we have an old-fashioned tradition of updating > `NEWS' when changing something in a branch! :-) Well, yes, but we also have many commits that are identified as "Changes from Arch/CVS synchronization" and "merge from 1.8" I tend to look at development history with gitk. I realize these commits are from the CVS era, but it makes me loose track of what is happening where. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen