On 2006-01-29, Peter Seibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Paolo Amoroso wrote: >> Larry Clapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Green Thumbs: Please check out the SLIMPL page, linked below. >>> What more would you like to see to give your blessing and Plant >>> this bad boy? >> >> Interesting progress. You may make more clear how others can >> contribute, e.g. by making section Tasks/Anybody more prominent >> and/or explicit. Other than that, it looks good. > > I agree with that. Remember that the overarching point of the > Gardeners project is to provide a structure that makes it easy to > channel the enthusiasm of new Lispers into productive work. The > current "Anybody to do" section could also be labeled "Hard stuff > nobody really knows how to do" section.
Heh. True. Including me. :) > It would be easier for a new Gardener to jump in and help out if > there were some smaller tasks that anybody willing to devote a > little time to it could have a reasonable hope of accomplishing. By > all means keep the hard stuff on there too--it'd be great if someone > got motivated to tackle those (or if someone comes along who just > happens to be an expert on vim internals)--but they shouldn't be the > only ways for folks to contribute. Okay. I'll think about that. I see a bit of a challenge, though: if I can think of a small task that anybody with some free time could reasonably hope to accomplish, then *I* can probably accomplish it. So such tasks may either come and go quickly, or I'll have to think a little harder and consider what I'd like people to do that I *can't* do, like test on Windows 98 or Mac OSX[1] or other versions of Vim, or it could just take a while to grow the code to the point where several doable-but-not-done-yet leaves exist. Eventually, for example, I'll get to the point where I've done a lot of the "trunk" of SLIMPL (evaluating expressions and handling basic debugger conditions), and people can start working on completing the debugger, or a "repl buffer" mode for Vim, or writing indent code, or context-sensitive syntax-highlighting, or who knows what. Anyway, it'll take some thought. Thanks for the feedback! -- Larry [1] Apropos: Thanks to Justin Dubs for mailing the SLIMPL list with a note that SLIMPL v0.04 works fine with OS X (10.4.4), gvim (6.3), and OpenMCL (1.0). _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
