On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Nikodemus Siivola nikodemus@random-state.net wrote:
On 6 November 2012 07:26, Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
And/or I want another library in which utilities can be speedily updated.
Speed of evolution is an explicit non-goal for Alexandria. Also, please don't hijack threads.
Maybe alexandria needs more people with commit rights?
Or else, maybe we need a different reference library that will have a more open development style.
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On 26 January 2013 18:47, Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Nikodemus Siivola nikodemus@random-state.net wrote:
On 6 November 2012 07:26, Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
And/or I want another library in which utilities can be speedily updated.
Speed of evolution is an explicit non-goal for Alexandria. Also, please don't hijack threads.
Maybe alexandria needs more people with commit rights?
Possible. But it's also possible current ones would just start their veto around obnoxiously:
"Alexandria's goal is to reduce duplication of effort and improve portability of Common Lisp code according to its own idiosyncratic and rather conservative aesthetic. What this actually means is open to debate, but each project member has a veto on all project activities, so a degree of conservativism is inevitable."
People with veto power are: Marco Baringer, Attila Lendvai, Nikodemus Siivola, and Robert Strandh.
Note: it's a veto in the sense "please remove this thing completely from Alexandria". It's the nuclear option.
I'm open to extending the circle of committers.
I'm open to adding more people with veto powers. (Stas comes to mind as someone with strong opinions I would not mind calling bullshit on me.)
I'm not open to curbing the veto powers of existing members.
Or else, maybe we need a different reference library that will have a more open development style.
I suspect you're looking for something Alexandria isn't trying to be.
Alexandria is slow moving and conservative by design.
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus
On 26 January 2013 19:24, Nikodemus Siivola nikodemus@random-state.net wrote:
Alexandria is slow moving and conservative by design.
Which is not to say that a 6 month reply delay on the mailing list is a desired property. That's bad and sad, and largely my fault.
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus
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Alexandria is slow moving and conservative by design.
Do you think that having an unstable-like (as in Debian) version of alexandria where there are none of the alexandria rules would be detrimental to alexandria?
Curiously, Pierre
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