RE: Process for integrating outside patches into ilisp

Hi Paolo,

From: Paolo Amoroso on Saturday, June 28, 2003 5:37 AM
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:15:35 -0600, Bill Clementson wrote:
> 
> > patches been incorporated into cvs. Since I'm a relatively new 
> > participant to open source projects, could someone tell me what the 
> > "standard" process is for incorporating patches from 
> programmers who 
> > aren't registered as project developers? One of the advantages

> The current process for ILISP is an informal one. Patches are 
> mostly sent to one of our mailing lists, and they are dealt 
> with by whoever, among the maintainers, has some time to do it.
> 
> I used to do it more often in the past, but I am currently in 
> a work/other stuff "busy loop" from which I haven't been able 
> to escape yet. I hope to be able to--really--clear things in 
> a few weeks, and do more on ILISP.

Great to hear that!
 
> I personally apologize with Alain Picard, Thomas Burdick, 
> Adam Warner and all those who have sent patches or fixes that 
> have not been reviewed or integrated yet. My kudos to Bill 
> Clementson for his participation to the project.

I just wanted to make certain that we did have some recognized process
in place for incorporating fixes. I know it is easy to lose peoples
interest if they don't get a response when they submit a patch.

[snipped]

> I can deal with CMUCL/SBCL and CLISP under Linux, but not 
> before I have solved the above mentioned personal problems.

Sounds good to me. I'll try to handle any clisp/windows patches. Is
there anyone who uses ilisp with either acl or lw that can verify those
patches? 

--
Bill Clementson


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