about founding z developement of zsh

[Marc Chantreux <eiro@xxxxxxxxx>]

hello people,

> The problem with that is none of the core zsh developers have
> ever asked for contributions in a quarter century of its existence,
> and all are unpaid volunteers.

well ... i am a zsh user since circa 2001 and always felt i didn't gave
zsh enough (same for perl, vim, linux, dwm, gnome and all those awesome
software that gave me 20 years of fun using floss).

i only have 1 patch in zsh, i don't really contribute to zsh but i try
to be active in the ecosystem

* support french users
* promote zsh in technical mailing lists, local meetups and
  other conferences
  (http://act.perlconference.org/tpc-2018-glasgow/talk/7338)
* start writing a zsh programming guide
  (https://github.com/eiro/zsh-programming-guide)
* start writing a plugin system with a very opiniated coding style
  (as perlish as we can) (https://github.com/zsh-uze)

basically, i try to spend some of the time i spared using zsh to promote
it because ... gosh ... when i have to read some bash/ksh/sh/posix code,
my eyes are bleeding and i really want to see more zsh outzere.

i started a list of things i would like to see appearing in zsh here

    https://github.com/eiro/zsh-programming-guide/blob/master/c/wishlist.md

and i guess some topics means huge work so unpaid patches coming time to
time are not enough.

and i wonder if this is worth a founding campain... and to be honnest,
sometimes i also wonder if a fresh start using a modern langage (like crystal or rust)
should be an option. there is the elvish shell
(https://github.com/elves/elvish) written in go as example but i really
think it took many wrong directions: basically, the perfect shell to me
should be zsh with

* nested structures
* namespaces
* lambdas
* function signatures (ideally with gradual typing where a type should
  be defined as 2 lambdas: serialize and deserialize)

but maybe this whole thing should have a dark side: if someone is paid
for this, why should i contrib for free, ones should ask.

regards,
marc