At the risk of being unpopular… 😊 I think there are quite a few people who _say_ that it’s an obstacle to their contributing to Clojure or to a Contrib library but in reality they wouldn’t actually contribute anyway, so it becomes an excuse.
For example, I’ve seen many people over the years complain about needing to sign a CA and submit a patch in order to update the documentation that is part of a project. Years ago, I moved all the documentation for clojure.java.jdbc off to clojure-doc.org where anyone can create issues and submit PRs because it’s “just” a GitHub project. Despite removing all the supposed “barriers to entry”, there have been almost zero community contributions of any sort to that documentation (with one recent exception: huge thank you to ehashman for some great work submitted recently!). A lot of big, well-known FOSS projects require a signed CA and have very specific contributing processes. Either folks will contribute or they won’t. I find it hard to believe that nREPL will suddenly get a stream of contributions that it wouldn’t get if it continues as a Contrib project. Hundreds of people have signed CAs on file – there’s a good pool of people who could, easily, contribute to nREPL already. Forking, renaming, and rebooting a fundamental bedrock project like nREPL could be very risky, and could cause a lot of pain/churn for a lot of Clojure users out there. (or of course you could all prove me wrong and it might be a painless transition and nREPL might flourish in ways none of us could possibly have imagined so far…) Sean Corfield -- (970) FOR-SEAN -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood From: Didier<mailto:didi...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 9:43 PM To: Clojure<mailto:clojure@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Migrating nREPL out of Clojure Contrib So do we have any idea of contributions are not made because of the CA or Jira? I understand it's hard to estimate how many people were discouraged by this. Maybe it should be part of the Clojure survey nexr time. Were you ever discouraged to contribute to a Contrib lib because of Jira? Were you ever discouraged to contribute to a Contrib lib because of the CA? I feel like without more data into these, it's only speculative that changes to nRepl would result in more active contributions from the community. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
