On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 6:58 AM, Faré <fahree@gmail.com> wrote:
Many prominent CL developers have stopped maintaining their CL projects, as I myself may do soon: Nathan Froyd, Henrik Hjelte, Hans Hübner, David Lichteblau, Gabor Melis, Nikodemus Siivola, etc.
Is there a confirmation from all of the listed (and also unlisted) persons on the fact that they have stopped maintaining their stuff altogether? As you say below, there are a number of people who are not very active, but continue accepting occasional patches - that's, actually, very little work given the stability of most of their important projects that the community relies upon. I know about Nathan, and the majority of his projects are already taken care of by sharplispers.
Some of their projects have lots of unanswered PRs on github an some even break when compiled with a recent Quicklisp and/or the newest ASDF. Many don't break yet, but issue warnings and may break in the future.
It would be great to see a list of those projects to be able to assess the scale of the issue.
Some old farts like Gary King or I only do minimal maintenance of our own projects, and we're mortal — I'm considering quitting even that maintenance.
Since I'm jumping ship, I won't be the one to fork these projects and give them a new home (though I'm available to do it, for my consulting fee, if there's enough of a market). Some of you CL professionals should do it and/or fund it. https://github.com/sharplispers might be a good home.
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