Community Resources

Here's how Dylan hackers keep up with what's going on...

comp.lang.dylan

This is the newsgroup dedicated to the discussion of Dylan. If you have a question about the Dylan language or about something that will be of interest to the Dylan community at large this is the preferred place for it. It is one of the few ways that the world at large can see that there is activity in the Dylan community and thus aids us in our quest for World Domination.

The #dylan IRC channel

The #dylan channel is where most of the day-to-day Dylan Q&A takes place. Since Dylan hackers are spread around the world (New Zealand, Germany, East and West coast USA, South America, ...) there's usually someone online at all times of day.

You can join the channel or browse and search the #dylan channel log:

• Join the #dylan channel via an IRC client (see IRC client list).
• Browse the #dylan channel logs by dates via irc.browse.com
• Register at www.ircbrowse.com for a free account and you can search in the #dylan channel logs

To discuss coding issues you can paste your code to the #dylan channel via http://paste.lisp.org, which provides these features:

• Create a new paste to the #dylan channel. Therefore you first enter the username, which you use on the #dylan channel. Then you type in a title, which describes the issue. Try to find a very specific one, that will improve the quality of browsing feature, which is desribed in the next item. And finally you paste a code snippet into the last field. That's it. The paste will be announced on the #dylan channel on Freenode.
• Browse the pastes to the #dylan channel.

Several agents communicate to the #dylan channel. For example, the #dylan channel reports

• Commits to the dylan repository
• New bug reports
• Pastes on paste.lisp.org

Dylan Mailing Lists

Several Dylan mailing lists are listed below. They can also be browsed at gmane.comp.lang.dylan.gwydion.

hackers subscribe archives

Our public development list. Here's where we talk about improving Gwydion Dylan and Open Dylan. We coordinate most of our development work. (A very small bit happens behind the scenes.) If you want to contribute, this is the place to start. Just post a message explaining what you'd like to do, and see what other developers suggest. You can post small patches to the list. Lurkers are also welcome!

announce subscribe archives

Find out about new Gwydion Dylan and Open Dylan releases! This is an extremely low-traffic list reserved for announcements. (If you subscribe to hackers@, you don't need to subscribe to this list.)

chatter subscribe archives

This list contains nothing but Subversion and Bugzilla output. This is for developers who need to know everything that's going on.