Every few months, the principals of the Racket world meet for a day to discuss the state and near (and, occasionally, distant) future of the Racket world. We met on April 1 (not a joke) and discussed the following topics, revisiting some that had been on the agenda before:
-- software freedom conservancy We are still corresponding with the SFC to set up a separate funding channel for Racket. While we have made some progress, the correspondence moves at a snail's pace mostly due to delays on SFC's side. -- license Most contributors have responded to our request for changes to the license. See last announcement for details. We will email the remaining individuals directly to seek their permission for a switch. -- beta releases Northwestern is keeping additional releases, including some that survive for the entire release cycle, but discoverability is unfortunately subpar. We will improve it. -- infrastructure Ryan Culpepper joined us for a short time to present his plans for re-organizing some of the major background infrastructure at Northeastern. We thank Ryan for many years of volunteering to take care of the Northeastern computers. -- security In anticipation of security problems, we have decided to set up a web page and to link to it from our front page at a prominent position. The web page will allow users to report security problems and will list all confirmed and patched problems. In addition, we will create a mailing list for people interested in security vulnerabilities. -- packages We will change the site so that it also signals a problem if a package comes without documentation and/or the documentation does not build. Furthermore, we will shortly switch the server's front-page to improve its usability. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/33C4BF7F-E4B8-4853-AF96-8826A8F6C8F2%40ccs.neu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
