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The main repo for the Medley Interlisp project. Wiki, Issues are here. Other repositories include maiko (the VM implementation) and Interlisp.github.io (web site sources)
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Consider adding releases, issues opened/closed, etc. to the News and Status Reports section of interlisp.org #1798

Open hjellinek opened 3 months ago

hjellinek commented 3 months ago

If Hugo supports pulling from RSS feeds, we could add release, issue, and other GitHub-derived information to the News and Status Reports section of interlisp.org.

GitHub's commits feed looks like https://github.com/interlisp/medley/commits/master.atom. The release feeds look like https://github.com/interlisp/medley/releases.atom.

masinter commented 1 month ago

I fear we haven't developed the habit of writing commit messages in a way that they will produce useful "what changed" summaries. There is scant feedback on what those release notes would look like. Compared to the ease of changing the Lisp code to behave differently, the tools for documenting those changes are crude if there are any at all. While we might continue to produce "what's changed" notes, i don't think what we're getting now is particularly useful. The effort to editorially write a summary of changes every few months vs. fixing our commit messages.... @rmkaplan @fghalasz @masinter @stumbo @lispcore

on the other hand -- bug fixes and new Medley features aren't worth much without some minimal documentation in a consistent place.