Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!talos!kjones
From: kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: International Stevie, and PD software
Message-ID: <1990Mar27.160259.25797@talos.pm.com>
Date: 27 Mar 90 16:02:59 GMT
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Reply-To: kyle@cs.odu.edu
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Dave Tutelman writes:
 > There are a number of people who have wrote me that they're making
 > enhancements to 3.69a.  [...] It would be nice if there were someone
 > to coordinate all this into the next Stevie package in another 6
 > months or so.  Does someone want to volunteer? [...]
 > 
 > You see, having software that is truly PD is a mixed blessing.  If
 > nobody owns it, then NOBODY OWNS IT!

As someone who lived through the disarray and subsequent firestorm of
ill-conceived, incompatible, and buggy patches that followed Dave
Taylor's parting with Elm, I suggest that a group be formed similar to
the Elm Development Group to take over the maintenance of Stevie.  Do it
while there are still uncorrupted copies of the software out there.