On Jan 29, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Larry Clapp wrote: > 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.
You can also think about things that will make your life a bit easier and/or will make it easier for other to contribute to the project but which aren't on the mainline path of pure hacking. For instance, it would be good at many levels if someone would document the current SLIME/SWANK protocol based on the SLIME/SWANK code. If this project contributes such a document to the SLIME project proper that might be the beginning of a friendly relationship (especially if the person who does the first pass continues to maintain it) and would act as a very slight check on the SLIME guys changing the protocol out from under you, at least not without someone noticing. (Whether they care about the inconvenience they might cause to the SLIMPL project by such changes will presumably depend on whether you guys can find ways to be seen as a useful addition to the SLIME project too.) And that's the kind of task that anyone with a basic reading knowledge of Lisp could take a crack at. That's just one suggestion; there are probably others along those lines. -Peter -- Peter Seibel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ Practical Common Lisp * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
