I think that it's wonderful when lispers clean up their code and make
it available in public repositories.
But I've noticed that there are quite a few "empty shell" projects on
common-lisp.net. I wondered if the maintainers of these projects would
remove them from common-lisp.net for the time being. I think it's fine
if the code released is version 0.1.0 or if there's no documentation.
That's OKAY. What I'm talking about is when you see a project's name
and it sounds cool and when you click the link you see that it's just
some automatically generated placeholder text. That's just spastic.
-Thanks,
RS
(please don't email me because i'm running a spam experiment -- thanks).
On 2006-02-19 00:08:50 -0500, ··········@eudoramail.com said:
> But I've noticed that there are quite a few "empty shell" projects on
> common-lisp.net.
As if poor Eric didn't have enough to worry about regarding keeping the
server up from numerous interruptions, accepting new requests for
projects, keeping all our PGP keys in sync and doing it all for free,
now he's getting complaints some people aren't following through on
their obligations.
All public repositories have dead branches (see sourceforge) and I'm
sure he'll get around to doing an "activity percentile" like rating
system as soon as you donate $30.00 to his site.
--
Brandon Werner
cl-semantic project administrator
http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-semantic/
http://www.brandonwerner.com
cl-semanic is a collection of RDF/OWL extraction and relationship
parsing macros written in Common Lisp.
i pensieri stretti & il viso sciolto
Brandon,
Can you read? Where was I dissing the site maintainer?
It was a suggestion to project owners not to open projects that lack
any history.
-RS
(please don't email me as I am running a spam experiment. Thanks.)
On 2006-02-19, Brandon Werner <··············@mac.com> wrote:
> On 2006-02-19 00:08:50 -0500, ··········@eudoramail.com said:
>
> > But I've noticed that there are quite a few "empty shell" projects on
> > common-lisp.net.
>
> All public repositories have dead branches (see sourceforge)
Of course, there is a bit of a difference between a dead project and one
that was never alive to begin with.
Michael
··········@eudoramail.com wrote:
> I think that it's wonderful when lispers clean up their code and make
> it available in public repositories.
>
> But I've noticed that there are quite a few "empty shell" projects on
> common-lisp.net. I wondered if the maintainers of these projects would
> remove them from common-lisp.net for the time being. I think it's fine
> if the code released is version 0.1.0 or if there's no documentation.
> That's OKAY. What I'm talking about is when you see a project's name
> and it sounds cool and when you click the link you see that it's just
> some automatically generated placeholder text. That's just spastic.
>
> -Thanks,
> RS
>
> (please don't email me because i'm running a spam experiment -- thanks).
>
Go to the CVS repositories and see if the code is there. I had quite a
bit of code in CVS before (under the cajoling of the c-l.net
administrators) we replaced the placeholder (and then only because
Thomas Burdick took the trouble).
kenny