[cmucl-imp] Reverting changes to listen (Fixes #143)

[Jon Boone]

I  understand not having the definitive answers for the user-centric questions, which is tough even when you proactively attempt to gather the information so it doesn’t surprise me that it’s unknown for CMUCL.

Regarding the principles,  I don’t remover off hand any particular FOSS projects that I’ve used that do have them articulated, but I always try to have them defined for my teams at work so we have some basis for relatively objective decision making.

I did do a quick search and stumbled across this:
https://github.com/readme/featured/oss-decision-making

— jb
On May 29, 2023 at 16:45 -0400, Carl Shapiro <carl.shapiro at gmail.com>, wrote:
> > On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 1:08 PM Jon Boone <ipmonger at delamancha.org> wrote:
> > > I’m struggling to build the appropriate context in which to understand a number of things about this particular project, such as:
> > >
> > > • Who are the known user communities?
> > > • What are their primary use cases?
> > > • What platform(s) do they use?
> > >
> > These are all very good questions to ask.  However, I am not sure anyone has the data to answer them definitively.  At least for the last bullet the answer is probably a subset of the platforms that we provide binaries.
> > >
> > > • What is the most important principle to consider in attempting to fix a reported bug?
> > > • What is the most important principle to consider in attempting to add a feature?
> > > • What is the most important principle to consider when proposing an architectural change to the project?
> > >
> > These are also very good questions to ask.  Do you know of a project that provides principles for contributors to follow?