On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:50:12 PM UTC-6, ivo welch wrote: > > > my note was partly a joke, partly a warning. the R community started out > very nice, too. many still are. but some of the tone has shifted towards > the obnoxious. >
I''m glad to hear you say that. I was wondering whether your comment was serious or not. > the weirdest part is that there are some people who seem to enjoy > *really* helping users, all the while being somewhat insulting. it is my > (incomplete) understanding that internal strife in the core development > team has become negative, too. it will be up to the julia core team to set > the community standard and watch themselves and the community to keep it > alive. > I am quite optimistic that the Julia community will not evolve the way that R did. Two reasons for this are: 1. Stefan, Jeff and Viral are surprisingly well adjusted for such technically accomplished people. :-) 2. I really do think that github and the other tools used for developing Julia encourage "social coding". I believe that over 300 people have contributed to github.com/JuliaLang/julia in the few years that the project has been on github. That is incredible. > this reminds me: for those of us who cannot contribute, is there a julia > foundation membership? it would not be a bad idea to have us using users > get used to contributing, too. > > > > >
