* Luis Oliveira [2008-12-29 15:28+0100] writes:
Helmut Eller <heller@common-lisp.net> writes:
* GP lisper [2008-12-28 23:50+0100] writes:
Then again, the easiest software to maintain is the one with zero users.
That, and the software which is maintained by other people.
Heh. That's true. I take it that you're not interested in maintaining any of the contribs?
Yes, mostly. Fixing bugs in contribs has rather low priority for me.
I would like to propose a process to support the contribs without getting in your way: let's have some sort of contrib maintainer than can test the contribs and tag the tree as FAIRLY_STABLE (or something similar) at regular intervals.
I could think of some people better prepared for this task, but if no one else is interested and this turns out to be a good idea, I'm volunteering for this task.
If you want do to that, more power to you!
Given a comprehensive test suite this process could be completely automatic. (See Factor's build system for a nice example of this.)
Yes, automatic testing sounds like a good strategy. I think that a test server which runs the test suite once a day and sends the result to this mailing list would be quite useful (not only for contribs). Helmut.