ASDF + QL maintenance needed.

[Faré]

ASDF needs volunteers to replace its retiring maintainers.

One easy way to start, and a good filter for people non ready for the
job, is the simple and boring yet essential task of looking at
Quicklisp build failures and either fixing other people's build files,
or fixing ASDF, depending on who introduced the bug (often a
combination of the two).

Recent Quicklisp build report:
http://report.quicklisp.org/2017-12-11/failure-report.html

I've started these two pull requests:
https://github.com/marijnh/Postmodern/pull/115
https://github.com/zkat/chanl/pull/12

If there are candidate maintainers, we could do some more of these together.
This would build up:
* Good practice for dealing with build issues in quicklisp
* Knowledge of what is or isn't the contract provided by ASDF 3.3.

—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org
If instead of teaching other people what government should be and should do,
you'd teach yourself what government actually is and does do,
you'd be a libertarian.

[Faré]

Post by Faré
ASDF needs volunteers to replace its retiring maintainers.
One easy way to start, and a good filter for people non ready for the
job, is the simple and boring yet essential task of looking at
Quicklisp build failures and either fixing other people's build files,
or fixing ASDF, depending on who introduced the bug (often a
combination of the two).
http://report.quicklisp.org/2017-12-11/failure-report.html
https://github.com/marijnh/Postmodern/pull/115
https://github.com/zkat/chanl/pull/12

Also
https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/f2cl/f2cl/merge_requests/4

Here is another interesting breakage, that calls for an active new
ASDF maintainer:
https://github.com/Shinmera/qtools/issues/25#issuecomment-350873853
qt-libs tries to hot-patch commonqt to work around the way it builds and loads
a C library, and ASDF 3.3 broke that. While a new set of workarounds
is possible,
a real fix, i.e. really teaching ASDF about C libraries, will require
a maintainer
with a good vision and the will to make things work --- and that's not me.
Or you can all migrate to bazel.

My offers to help a new maintainer get started still holds, so far.

Post by Faré
If there are candidate maintainers, we could do some more of these together.
* Good practice for dealing with build issues in quicklisp
* Knowledge of what is or isn't the contract provided by ASDF 3.3.

—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org
Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.
— Thomas Jefferson