Dear chicken users and hackers,
I have decided to quit being chief maintainer of this project. Various developments have lead to this step which I don't take lightheartedly. This project takes too much of my time. I know that I'm basically responsible for this myself, but maintaining the compiler, core libraries, many extensions, build system, documentation and evangelizing has a substantial impact on my work and private life. My head is spinning with all the little technical details and it is becoming increasingly hard for me to just sit down and *not* think of anything but chicken and scheme implementation issues. Another reason is that I am slowly losing my touch to the code base. Chicken more or less represents the Scheme implementation I would like to have, but users demand different things and co-developers sometimes have different goals and that is quite all right. Since this isn't a one man project anymore I have to decide whether I continue trying to have control over every little issue or whether I just let go. I'll do the latter. I appreciate the help I have received by all who contributed over the years. I'm particularly grateful to those who have taken their share in the work. I will be available for giving advice (should it be needed) and to fix the hard-to-find bugs (when I feel like it and find the time). I will try to do minimal maintenance for eggs I've authored but not at the pace I used to. I'm still following the users and hackers mailing lists and will try to assist in organizing the transition to a cooperative maintenance model (or whatever will come out of this). I would also like to emphasize that this is purely a personal decision: I appreciate everybody who is or has been involved in this project. I thank you for everything you have taught me and for all the good vibes that have been coming from hacking together. I want once again to ask for help and implore any CHICKEN users interested to join taking part in the maintenance jobs that make this Scheme system more fun to use. Here is how you can help: * Subscribe to the "chicken-janitors" mailing list and help keeping the automated egg building process working, and be up to date about bugs reported by the trac system. * Help doing release management and testing of the trunk * Become a moderator of one of the chicken-related mailing lists * Update the wiki, fix errors and add example code. * Write eggs! * Follow the mailing lists and give advice to new users. * Report bugs. Thanks, everybody and good luck. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
