So, what's the next step here? On 23 July 2017 at 02:16, Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you saying the contrib process is deliberatly made to be difficult for >> the community to contribute to it? > > > No, not at all, just that it's deliberately designed to be exactly the way > it is, so dedicating a lot of time to trying to change that is likely to be > frustrating and fruitless. > > I agree about the confusion of a lot of the contrib projects, I'm often > unsure if they're abandoned or just mature. I don't know if the expectation > or the reality is that they should all be in a working state. > > On 23 July 2017 at 09:17, Didier <didi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > The contrib process is in place because some want it that way - it's >> very deliberately by design and AFAICT unlikely to change. >> >> Are you saying the contrib process is deliberatly made to be difficult >> for the community to contribute to it? >> >> If so, maybe if it had more obvious tenets, I find its difficult as a >> user to understand what the contribs are for, who maintains them, what >> their status are, and how they differ to the standards library, or other >> community projects. >> >> I can't contribute to OSS, because of my current employment, but as a non >> contributing Clojure user, I've always wondered how much I should rely on >> contribs, some of them seem quasi-abandonned, yet they appear more >> official, and it makes it hard for me to decide if I want to take a >> dependency on them or not. >> >> In a way, an active project gives me more trust, and if taking nRepl out >> of contrib makes it more active, that's a good thing. Unless contrib libs >> come with any official support guarantees, or some form of stronger >> commitments? >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
