I may be more qualified by previous experience to help
with lisp, but not with the various other aspects.
I am not familiar with the Sourceforge setup and
I am frankly scared of the prospect of integrating
code written by persons of various skills into something
that works.
In my view one of the major problems
of the 1970-1980 coding (the last done at MIT) was
that a self-appointed energetic undergraduate who thought
he was really smart and knew how to code "better"...
substantially raised the barrier to understanding the
system. He also inserted bugs because he didn't know
what some of the algorithms were supposed to do.
I am quite familiar with undergraduate projects
here at Berkeley, and getting such a project to
really work typically requires a substantial additional
effort by staff or graduate students or faculty.
If someone really wants to make something better, I
think he/she should make a proposal to this list and
let us all look at it. The guiding principle should
probably be, "first, do no harm".
If all or some of us think it
is a bad idea, but someone still wants to do it, all
that is needed is for the author to keep the code in
a separate file which can be loaded on request on top of the
system. Note that almost any piece of code can be
replaced in a lisp system merely by loading a file
that redefines functions and data. So the main
point would be to keep two people from independently
implementing the same new feature. Is there a "to-do"
list concept in sourceforge?
CY wrote...
>
> If we go that way, we need to divide up the tasks into
> pieces which will be maintained. Richard, you're almost
> certainly the best qualified of any of us to handle that
> and be overall coordinator - if everyone agrees, would
> you be willing to take on that role?
>
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