On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers <
sahana...@windhorse.biz> wrote:
>
> However, if it is OK to put them on the SVN I feel they would be easier to
> find, so if it is possible I would prepend any necessary license and put
> them there.
>
>
Jon,
I think it is perfectly acceptable for you to put them in the SVN
repository. I think the incubator is the best current place.
Although, I would also be in favor of starting a new branch for user
contributions. I have thought about having a place for user contributions
often, but not deeply. By that I mean it has crossed my mind a lot but
I've never gone to the effort of proposing it to the team or thinking about
how to implement it
If we had a branch in the repository for user contributions, and a
developer willing to maintain a section in the Files downloads section for
the contributions that would be ideal.
When you browse the svn tree in the project there is a link called
Shapshot, which I had assumed would give you a tar or zip file of just the
current directory. But, I just tried it to see how easy it would be for
users to get something from the incubator. I tried it with Lee's
decimalFormat:
Tree [r9855] <https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/code-0/9855/> /
incubator<https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/code-0/HEAD/tree/incubator/>
/
decimalFormat<https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/code-0/HEAD/tree/incubator/decimalFormat/>
/
unfortunately, it took forever to create and produced a 256,784,919 byte
file, which looks to be the entire repository. I'm sure Mike would point
out to me that this was hardly user friendly. ;-)
So we already have some stuff in the incubator that would make a good start
towards a user contributions section. I realize that Lee was a committer,
but it's sort of a shame that his decimal formatter is not available to the
casual user.
Anyhow, I think the idea of accepting user contributions is worth talking
about and maybe implementing. But, as a committer, I think you can
certainly set up something to make your utilities easily available to
ooRexx users, and you should go for it.
--
Mark Miesfeld
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