I am in complete agreement, in the general sense, with both you and the parent. However, I'm not proposing they hire engineers to work on the bigger pictures of

I am in complete agreement, in the general sense, with both you and the parent. However, I'm not proposing they hire engineers to work on the bigger pictures of Guile, and as the parent suggests, a "magical codebase" appears. From Eli Zaretskii's own email[1], there are some very low hanging fruit that can be accelerated through funds -- like solving non-GNU compatibility. We can see more tasks at the GuileEmacsTodo[2] list and the various Google Summer of Code sponserships for Guile [3]. These sponsorships have helped Guile make huge gains in the past 4 years. My suggestion is to just keep that momentum going, year around. I know about the mythical man-month, etc, but in this case, some of this low-hanging fruit can be financed. - [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/615347/ http://lwn.net/Articles/615347/ - [2] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacsTodo http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacsTodo - [3] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/bpt/5803402760028160 https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/g...