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 racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to racket-dev@googlegroups.com. 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.
