[racket-dev] collections with no one responsible

Do we have any bugs in category 2.?

Robby

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>> - eopl
>>>>  Various people have changed this collection in the past few years
>>>> (robby, eli, mflatt).  Who should I assign bugs to?
>>>
>>> If no one is maintaining this code, would it be better for EOPL to
>>> distribute a PLT file?
>>
>> I don't think so, no. If the choices are between kicking it out and
>> putting me on, put me on. I don't really know where that code came
>> from, tho, and I didn't write it.
>
> This doesn't really solve the question I started with, which is what
> should I tell people who report bugs.
>
> As I see it, there are basically 3 options:
>
> 1. Someone who's already maintaining other things starts genuinely
> maintaining the eopl collection.  That sounds pretty unlikely to me,
> and I don't think that's what you're volunteering for.
>
> 2. We keep it where it is, and don't maintain the code other than
> fixing life-threating bugs.  This is basically the status quo, and I
> think it means people who report other, non-life-threatening bugs
> should be informed that we're not maintaining the code, and thus their
> bug isn't going to get fixed.
>
> 3. We take eopl out of the tree, and it's distributed/maintained by
> Dan and Mitch (or by someone else).
>
> Choice 2 is reasonable, but we should be clear about it.
> --
> sam th
> samth at ccs.neu.edu