[Openmcl-devel] user submissions and open-sourceness

[Erik Huelsmann]

>> >From what I see happening in SBCL is that - even for software which
>> has far less documented sources than Subversion - it's the newcomers
>> who do the ports to the new platforms: those are the ones with the
>> itch...
>
> That's exactly what's happening with CCL.  Matt is doing the Intel32
> port.  He just jumped in and started doing it.  Anyone can do that.

[...]

>  What should we be doing differently?

No idea. However anybody posing this question in Open Source should
expect the following question in return: Do you know "Producing Open
Source Software"? (http://producingoss.com/) It's a book exactly on
this topic.


HTH,

Erik.