On 05/04/13 09:32, Makarius wrote: > On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Greenaway wrote: >> What practical things could such volunteers do that you would find >> helpful? > > So how about maintaining Proof General, seriously, no-nonse?
As somebody who isn't a Proof General user, nor an Emacs user, nor has ever worked with elisp, this doesn't fall particularly well within my skill-set, unfortunately. > And there are other unmaintained parts, such as WWW_Find. (Note that > several other people have worked there in the meantime, and they > should be included in the discussion, to benefit from the experience > gained from certain find_theorems experiements that never hit the > repository so far.) WWW_Find is perhaps closer to my skill set, but still not a tool I use. Volunteers, counter-intuitively, require payment. Sometimes such payment is a simple "thanks" on a public mailing list or a changeset being accepted into the official repository. Other times it requires seeing an itch that they have been facing being scratched. If we wanted to start a discussion about replacing "WWW_Find" with a custom server that the inbuilt "find_theorems" command could be set up to automatically probe...: > find_theorems "(_ :: word32) + _ < 2 ^ 32" searched for: "_ + _ < 2 ^ 32" 0 theorem(s) found in current session. 2 theorem(s) found from theorem server "example.com": WordLemmaBucket.word_add_power_off: [...] (requires import of WordLemmaBucket) LemmaBucket.word_add_bits: [...] (requires import of LemmaBucket) ...then we would be talking about an itch that I would be willing to volunteer some time to scratch. Cheers, David ________________________________ The information in this e-mail may be confidential and subject to legal professional privilege and/or copyright. National ICT Australia Limited accepts no liability for any damage caused by this email or its attachments. _______________________________________________ isabelle-dev mailing list isabelle-...@in.tum.de https://mailmanbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/mailman/listinfo/isabelle-dev