[erlisp-devel] Erlisp and uptick

[Dirk Gerrits]

Eric Lavigne wrote:
>>"He" has already joined :-). I think I'll lurk around for a while and
>>contribute to discussions. I'm in no position to code Erlisp at the
>>moment. Feel free to bounce questions off of me, though.
>  
> Welcome to the team, Joel. 

Yes welcome aboard.  I'm sorry about my somewhat snide comment on your 
blog.  My saturday just gets frustrated when people misrepresent my 
views. ;)  But I have only myself to blame.  As Eric has pointed out to 
me there are some things I can do to improve the Erlisp roadmap.

>>>I do not think there /are/ any quick and easy tasks, 
> 
> 
> I think this is an issue worth looking into. New developers,
> especially if they are new to programming in general, need easy tasks
> to cut their teeth on. It would be nice if ErLisp could fill that
> need.
> 
> Each of my patches so far has some little problem with it. Allegro
> should be using gates rather than wait functions. That will require
> some reading and a few lines of code. CMUCL should probably use
> run-reasons instead of polling. That will require some research and a
> few lines of code. The bad news is that I'm a messy coder. :-( The
> good news is that there is no shortage of little projects laying
> around, and more are produced with each patch. :-)

Okay, I had a different idea about quick and easy tasks.  Personally, I 
don't consider anything related to Lisp concurrency easy, which is 
exactly why I've started this project. ;)  But there are definately 
tasks that would result in just small amounts of code being added/changed.

> What do you think of creating a contributor's page? It could have
> links to the download page and the discussion page (both of which are
> fine the way they are). It would also include a list of contribution
> ideas of various difficulties and suggestions for getting started on
> each (such as checking the CMUCL mailing list or CMUCL's
> multi-proc.lisp for the CMUCL run-reasons task).

That's an excellent idea!  I'll try to work that in as soon as possible. 
  I'll also want to keep it as up to date as humanly possible, but take 
shouldn't take more than a few minutes a day.

- Dirk