[plt-scheme] Low-hanging coding tasks?

From: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com (hendrik at topoi.pooq.com)
Date: Sat Mar 8 18:47:53 EST 2008

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 05:18:10PM -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> 
> We need a serious functional data structure library, ideally with a  
> performance test suite not just a test suite. Carl Eastlund has been  
> looking for contributors.
> 
> We also need people who are willing to port existing libraries from  
> the untyped world to the typed world. That is, libraries in the srfi  
> and planet world need to be equipped with types. If you are  
> interested, contact Sam Tobin-H.
> 
> If that's too much for now, how about creating variants of the planet  
> libraries with contracts for externally visible values? That would be  
> ideal. Jacob would be able to point to the right places.
> 
> A large project could be the integration of drscheme with svn. I  
> don't even know whether it's possible, but it should be plug-in tool.

Perhaps a defined interface for communicating with revision control in 
general -- the distributed revision control systems are qualitatively 
different from the central ones, and arguable more suited to open-source 
development.

-- hendrik


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