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roswell / roswell

intended to be a launcher for a major lisp environment that just works.
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Suggestion: create a Roswell-specific organization #105

Closed eudoxia0 closed 8 years ago

eudoxia0 commented 8 years ago

Roswell has >1000 commits, many contributors, and is an established project that many people use. I think moving the code to an organization would help establish it as a community project rather than one person's Yet Another Implementation Manager.

Also, it would provide a central place to put Roswell-based projects, or Roswell's dependencies (I saw you just created ql-checkout, I think that will be used in Roswell?).

It will also make it easier to factor code out of Roswell, into libraries that can be shared and tested separately.

And, most importantly, an organization makes it easier to manager a GitHub Pages repo, which is necessary to advertise the project.

If you decide to do this, I can also make the website since I have some experience with GH Pages (e.g., Clack, CommonDoc, Ceramic).

The obvious names like 'roswell' and 'ros' are taken, but 'roslisp' is available.

snmsts commented 8 years ago

:+1:

ql-checkout will be distributed with ros script.

any comments? @fukamachi @guicho271828

proofit404 commented 8 years ago

I don't think 'roslisp' is a good name. Maybe 'roswell-installer' or 'cl-roswell'.

guicho271828 commented 8 years ago

I agree with @proofit404 , remember ROS is already an established name for Robot Operating System, a widely used infrastructure for controlling industrial and experimental robots like PR2, developed and used in CMU, MIT and more. It has (well, somewhat unsurprisingly) Common Lisp interface and it is also called roslisp.

proofit404 commented 8 years ago

Naming things is the most difficult task :smile:

guicho271828 commented 8 years ago

Actually I have long dreamed of using roslisp in real robots, and reviving Common Lisp as the best developmental environment for writing a robotics program.

snmsts commented 8 years ago

hm...

eudoxia0 commented 8 years ago

The roswell account might have private activity, or it might be inactive. In that case, GitHub lets you email them to ask for the account. I did that once and got a prompt reply, but sadly in my case the account had private activity ;)

snmsts commented 8 years ago

OK. I'll ask first.please wait.

snmsts commented 8 years ago

got it! https://github.com/roswell

eudoxia0 commented 8 years ago

:confetti_ball:

eudoxia0 commented 8 years ago

Well, I guess I can close this one now.