anyways, i'll set up a darcs repo at common-lisp.net/project/cl-wdim/darcs. feel free to pull whatever you would like to have in the official.
However, this is not how it works.
If you are interested in getting your improvements into SLIME, it would help to send patches that do *one* improvement at a time and to explain what they do.
belive me i would if managing it didn't take _more_ time then doing the features themselves. i gave up on using cvs a long time ago. of course it could be my lack of expertise, but dealing with separated patches with cvs especially without commit rights is a pita.
sorry for being upset, but cvs diff'ing, hand editing the patches, then keeping track of what changes i've sent and what changes are not meant to be sent at all, and then keeping it in sync with the ChangeLog is way too much effort compared to the effort i spend on actually improving slime.
For instance, your sldb-sexp-highlight-mode came in, without an explanation of the proposed feature, with a patch apparently related to fuzzy completion. This is not a good strategy: For instance, I
sorry for that. probably i got tired of going through the cvs diff result and deleting patch hunks by hand the nth time in a way that does not break the diff file.
all in all, i would suggest moving to a better versioning system like darcs that handles all these issues in a very convenient way including the ChangeLog. but time tought me not to try reforming things that i'm not an original participant of and where i don't see the will without my efforts. i brought up moving to darcs, i asked for commit rights, etc without any answers while meanwhile in some occasions i was spending more time fighting with cvs and editing diffs by hand then actually hacking the features themselves.
i may sound [lack of proper english knowledge] but there's no anger and nothing like that in me. i'm just going in the direction of the least resistance in this given situation... my goal is to have a devenv that doesn't annoy us and currently having a darcs repo to share slime with my collegues and occasionally merging it with the official cvs is way much simpler then the above process.
again, please don't feel offended by this mail, i'm lacking proper english to talk about an issue like this in a way that is not offending but at the same time clear and honest.