Is this still current? http://clojure.github.io/clojure-contrib/

On Sunday, June 9, 2013 8:19:15 PM UTC-5, Sean Corfield wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Steven Degutis 
> <sbde...@gmail.com<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Changing clojure.test seems like the wrong way to go. Being attached to 
> a CA 
> > makes it hard to contribute to. 
>
> It's a one-off action. Sign it, send it in. Then you can contribute to 
> Clojure or any of its contrib libraries from then on. Not exactly 
> "hard". 
>
> > Being attached to Clojure makes it too slow-moving. 
>
> Not true. Go look at the contrib libraries and see how they have 
> evolved. Nothing holds them back. The number of contributors - and the 
> number of libraries - is growing all the time. 
>
> > I think everyone involved in the IRC discussion agreed that clojure.test 
> > should be deprecated it in favor of a backward-compatible, faster-moving 
> > successor. I'm certainly all for it. 
>
> A backward-compatible, faster-moving successor is certainly possible 
> within the contrib system. It is more likely to be used as a 
> dependency by other libraries and it is more discoverable. 
>
> > But maybe being a contrib-lib isn't a bad idea. I really 
> > don't know much about them and how they work. 
>
> Don't dismiss it until you know more about them and the process 
> involved. If clojure.test was replaced within the contrib context, I'd 
> be far more likely to contribute to it than to some random third-party 
> library. 
>
> > But that's what I meant, that he's proposing we start with his lib and 
> add 
> > extensibility in the places we want it. So my response to that still 
> > applies. 
>
> Your response was to a point he didn't make. 
>
> > In my experience, when a tool comes out that people think is genuinely 
> > better, these things work themselves out. See how nrepl.el replaced 
> swank. 
> > How leiningen replaced cake. How ring+compojure placed webjure and 
> others. 
> > How Clojure replaced Ruby and CL and Python for a lot of us. 
>
> True, but none of those were part of Clojure or contrib - and 
> tools.nrepl IS part of contrib now. 
>
> > The low number of JIRA tickets probably says more about JIRA than 
> > clojure.test. You said those 3 tickets were the only ones against 
> > clojure.test, but in the discussion there were many more complaints. 
>
> Yes, people tend to complain but don't actually do anything about it - 
> they don't open tickets - so nothing gets done :) 
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