[Gardeners] Tending the CL-Gardeners garden

[Peter Seibel]

On Jan 7, 2006, at 5:23 AM, Paolo Amoroso wrote:

> Brad Beveridge <brad.beveridge at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Sounds good to me, I'll put some comments on the various project  
>> pages.
>
> I have addressed in the Background section of my proposal:
>
>   Package and Resource Directory
>   http://wiki.alu.org/Package_and_Resource_Directory
>
> your comments about how CLD works.  Marc had also added some notes.

This looks good. I'd say that you guys should "officially" submit  
this project. Which I guess means, send an email to gardeners with a  
new subject line (i.e. don't reply to this message) of something like:

   Project Proposal: Package and Resource Directory

with a pointer to the appropriate project page and asking to have it  
blessed as an official CL Gardener's project. Then we follow the  
Apache style voting rules: anyone can vote +1, +0, -0, or -1 though  
-1 votes must be accompanied with an counterproposal or explanation.  
In the end only the votes of the Green Thumbs officially count but  
it's good for everyone else to take a look at the project and vote  
accordingly. The main criteria for approving a project is that it is  
well enough defined that a new Gardener can figure out what the  
project is about (and thus whether they're interested in helping out)  
and how to get started contributing.

Obviously since CL Gardeners is going to sponsor a lot of projects  
there's no need to vote against something just because you're not  
interested in it; only vote -1 if you think either that the project  
is poorly defined and thus likely to lead to gardeners wasting their  
time trying to work on it or if you really feel that it doing it will  
somehow be contrary to the Gardeners' mission of making Common Lisp  
more attractive. I suspect the latter case will be quite rare.

-Peter

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