Derick Eddington <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 21:23 +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > >> I'd also appreciate thoughts about how to _name_ the libraries inside >> the collections. I think someone (Derick?) has mentioned using (ported >> ...) for third-party code ported to R6RS, and I'm fine with that, but >> would like to hear other suggestions as well. > > Yeah, I suggested (ported ---) for community-maintained ported > libraries. I like it because a top-level namespace is needed, because > it's not proper to name them like (irregex) unless the author blesses > that particular R6RS port, and "ported" describes the nature of the > collection. > I agree, besides the "single collection" point I detailed in my other mail.
>> We also need to come up with a plan for how to manage these packages, >> and in a sense assigning maintainer roles. I'd be willing to maintain at >> least those that are currently in spells, but if someone else steps up >> for one of those, that's OK with me as well. > > Feel free to incorporate/take stuff from Xitomatl and provide it in a > different way. My view of Xitomatl has been that it's just my personal > laboratory collection and useful stuff would be moved out. I don't have > as much free time as I used to, but I should be able to help maintain > some stuff in (ported ---). > Fine! > I think it'd be good if we helped maintain as necessary and as we're > able, with flexible roles, instead of fixing maintainers for > particular libraries, at least this early. > Agreed. > LaunchPad has the facilities for the coordination, but I don't care if > somewhere else is used, we just need proper facilities for > coordinating. > I'm not a big fan of bzr, and would rather use something git-based (like gitorious or github); but if most people want to do this on launchpad, I could cope with bzr, I guess ;-). I've already a "dorodango" project on gitorious, and we could use repositories below that for each package. Suggestions welcome! Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
