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Some are recovering, still, from St. Patrick's day. Some from last night ... Pippen and I didn't attack the galactic alcohol supply though. Some still haven't cooked their corned beef and cabbage.
The first reactions to Jim's post to the `gcc` email lists were reposts on "in crowd" Open Source Software sites. Important but quiet.
Jim wants publicity. Accolades.
We all want Fame, Wealth, and Power. But none of that comes without "The Work". And it isn't done.
But we do need attention. Help from the `gdb` side of the `gcc` community is much needed. So is some help with the subtleties of "GENERIC". That's why the email was sent.
We also need attention from the COBOL users community. Surely, someone has a body of COBOL code we could compile? We need lots of source code to run through the new compiler to make sure it "works". Even better if there is a test suite or apps with test data.
DISCLAIMER ... `gcobol` (working name) is just a COBOL compiler. No CICS. There is no Open Source CICS that we know of. No true VSAM. We're working on Gnu COBOL compatible indexed and relative-addressed file support. No Report Writer (yet). No Object-Oriented support (yet). No COBOL 2002 conditional compilation (yet). No `gdb`-native debugging (yet) -- our `cbl-gdb` package for GNUCOBOL provides the only modern, `gdb`-based, source-level debugger for COBOL[2].
Edgar taught our first ever OpenLDAP Training session in Spanish. Afterwards he admitted "the language" was hard. Expressing technical material in Spanish is different than speaking it around the house. He only talks about OpenLDAP in English at work. That was a few days of prep and four in teaching.
The Handbook is coming back together. Like `gcobol` there's a list of stuff to do but there is finally a prototype site up. Hope for a solution to the categories and tags things. We'll see.
Chilling was published on 2022-03-19