Thanks for the response, Carl. I’m struggling to build the appropriate context in which to understand a number of things about this particular project, such as: • Who are the known user communities? • What are their primary use cases? • What platform(s) do they use? • What is the most important principle to consider in attempting to fix a reported bug? • What is the most important principle to consider in attempting to add a feature? • What is the most important principle to consider when proposing an architectural change to the project? — jb On May 29, 2023 at 15:26 -0400, Carl Shapiro <carl.shapiro@gmail.com>, wrote:

Hi Jon,

I do not recall there ever being a discussion about this.  Small projects tend to be less structured so that might not be a surprise

What are your interests?

Carl

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On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 11:37 AM Jon Boone <ipmonger@delamancha.org> wrote:

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I understand the rationale for reverting the merge associated with closing  Issue #143 — Listen doesn’t signal error when given more than one argument ( gitlab.common-lisp.net/cmucl/cmucl/-/issues/143).

I’m hoping we can articulate some prioritized principles for the project to assist folks such as myself who are interested in participating in the project.

Is this a topic that has been discussed before?

— jb

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I  understand not having the definitive answers for the user-centric questions, which is tough even when you proactively attempt to gather the information so it doesn’t surprise me that it’s unknown for CMUCL. Regarding the principles,  I don’t remover off hand any particular FOSS projects that I’ve used that do have them articulated, but I always try to have them defined for my teams at work so we have some basis for relatively objective decision making. I did do a quick search and stumbled across this: https://github.com/readme/featured/oss-decision-making — jb On May 29, 2023 at 16:45 -0400, Carl Shapiro <carl.shapiro@gmail.com>, wrote:

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On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 1:08 PM Jon Boone <ipmonger@delamancha.org> wrote:

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I’m struggling to build the appropriate context in which to understand a number of things about this particular project, such as:

• Who are the known user communities? • What are their primary use cases? • What platform(s) do they use?

These are all very good questions to ask.  However, I am not sure anyone has the data to answer them definitively.  At least for the last bullet the answer is probably a subset of the platforms that we provide binaries.

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• What is the most important principle to consider in attempting to fix a reported bug? • What is the most important principle to consider in attempting to add a feature? • What is the most important principle to consider when proposing an architectural change to the project?

These are also very good questions to ask.  Do you know of a project that provides principles for contributors to follow?