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  • From: Jeremy A Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>
  • To: Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • Cc: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>, sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire]Unfiled spells
  • Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:37:26 -0400 (EDT)

If someone lets me know what spells we might want (simple ones) I could
write a few.

Jeremy

Quoting Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:

> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:55:00AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I'm not sure how to approach this, so I will just say it. For
> Grimoire
> > Gurus whom do not add spells after a certain amount of time (say,
> 2
> > weeks?) to their section after submition, should/can another guru
> add that
> > spell (after testing and making sure the format is correct, of
> course) to
> > the appropriate section? The reason I ask is we seem to be
> getting a
> > backlog of new spells in certain areas. If I were a new user
> whom
> > submitted a spell I liked and just got ignored for some time
> (I've been
> > ignored for several months, myself), then I'd be pretty put out
> with the
> > whole SM distribution.
> >
> well a while back there was some 'discussion' of opening up the
> grimoire
> so we could work on each others sections, i dont remember there
> ever
> really being a definite conclusion to this. Perhaps its time there
> is.
>
> How many active guru's do we have? by active i mean, subscribed
> to
> sm-spell-submit and will add a spell when its submitted (assuming
> it works
> or they can make it work). We arent going to make it if most
> sections
> are maintained by someone who is out in left field, not adding
> spells or
> version bumping. So perhaps we need to find out who is actually
> helping
> out, trim down the hurd and open up the grimoire to the remaining
> Gurus?
>
> Im the ham maintainer, and theres not much interest in my section
> that ive
> noticed, so im kind of in the dumb position of 'well im a
> maintainer...but
> no one really uses my section' id much rather be able to do other
> random
> stuff from time to time outside my section.
>
> personally i think that our main weak point is not having enough
> spells. we are going 1.0 in less then two months and have 1500
> spells,
> thats good and 200 better then lunar linux, but still thats not
> much of
> a gap. Gentoo has 2459 packages and debian has 8700, Id like to to
> see
> sorcery catch up to gentoo in the number of packages. In order to
> do
> that we need to be more efficient at getting spells added, which
> isnt
> going to happen if no one is paying attention to their section.
> Maybe
> just having a dedicated grimoire team is a better solution.
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