[Gcl-devel] Re: gcl status?

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Please excuse my recent absence -- am dealing with some
major life changes at the moment.  Yes, I'd be happy to do another gcl
release in the near future.  Am restarting the work flow now.

Take care,

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> Hi Camm,
>
> [Resending from November.  If you're there, could you please ack?  Tx.]
>
> After the initial ping last year, rms and I are now trying to review the
> state of all GNU packages, so I'm checking in about GNU Common Lisp.  It
> seems there hasn't been a release in a few years.
>
> Would you be able to make a new release soon, changing the software
> license to GPLv3 or later, and the documentation license FDLv1.3 or
> later?  That is the main thing we are trying to write all the GNU
> maintainers about.  Even if it's just a copy of the last release with
> the licenses changed, it would be worthwhile.  Of course technical
> improvements would be even better :).
>
> Please advise, and thanks.
>
> Karl
>
> P.S. In addition, I guess there has been some bug reports that people
> are wondering if you have received, for example:
>
> Date: 27 Jan 2009 15:13:02 -0600
> From: Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Gcl-devel] How to submit GCL patches
> To: Jerry James <address@hidden>
> Cc: GCL Development <address@hidden>
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Jerry James <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> | Those who have responded to previous messages of mine are David
> | Billinghurst and Gabriel Dos Reis.  Thank you, David and Gabriel.  It
> | appears that you are the only GCL developers still reading this list.
>
> I still hope that Camm will eventually (soon) look into this, even
> though I did not receive replies to my emails.
>
> | > 2. Who has editing rights on the project web pages?
> |
> | I don't know.
>
> Camm.
>
> |
> | > 3. Who has commit rights to the code repository?
> |
> | The developers, would be my guess.
>
> all those officially listed as developers.
>
> | > 4. Who is in charge of release management?
> |
> | Since the last release was in 2005, my guess is nobody.
>
> Camm.
>
> | > 5. What are the release criteria for 2.6.8 and 2.7.0, respectively?
> |
> | I haven't yet found any information on this.
>
> I do not know.
>
> | > 6. What processes are used to manage incoming patches?
> |
> | There doesn't seem to be one (anymore).
>
> Camm used to be very responsive, so I assume that he has been very
> busy in recent months.
>
> | > 7. What are the policies and procedures around recruiting new developers?
> |
> | I don't know.  Along those lines, let me introduce myself and explain
> | my interest in GCL.
>
> I don't know of any, but I assume ti is like for most open source
> software :-)
>
> I hope that eventually all of this will be sorted out.
>
> -- Gaby
>
>
>

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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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