7:18:25beachpjb: I think I have taken steps to make myself as replaceable as possible. Most of the techniques are documented in the form of published papers or in the specification. Much of the code has been extracted to independent repositories, usually well documented and including tests. Remaining code is often highly modular and often well commented.
7:20:43beachpjb: Bike and karlosz know the compiler fairly well. heisig knows a lot about HIR because he wrote the HIR evaluator. The register allocator was largely written by hayley. The reader is Eclector, so scymtym knows about it. heisig also wrote the entire implementation fo the sequence functions.
7:21:08beachpjb: That leaves the details of the bootstrapping technique that I am currently the only one who understands.
7:21:36beachPlus, the bootstrapping procedure not being entirely finished, the documentation is not accurate at this point.