On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:09:26PM -0800, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:
> Some background on me...
> I obviously expect politics here -- all significant projects need some
> kind of organization for tracking changes to the code. What is the
> political process used here? Will I expect to find lots of
> resistance? Is this a project where I need "thick skin" just to get a
> _comment_ inserted into a source? Is there a ``Good Ol' Boys'' clique
> here? My question, therefore, is related to, "How *painful* will it
> be for me to contribute back to darcs?"
Fortunately, Haskell's type system is powerful enough to obviate the
need for politics.
<tangent>
Though, in actuality, I have found the haskell lists or lists where
haskell folks hang out (such as here) tend to be extremely friendly and
welcoming to new folks. Darcs especially encourages submissions from
random people, it is part of the reason I like it.
Having a couple darcs
hosted projects and working on them, often the very first time you hear
of someone is via their first 'darcs send', you get an introduction and
a patch all in one.
I think it is something about the language that attracts very
(ironically perhaps to some) pragmatic programmers. We are already too
lazy to deal with strict semantics, and offload as much off our minds as
we can to the type system, I think in general we don't want to fill it
up with politics and overdesign. :)
These lists will spoil you for how easygoing they are. I always go
through a bit of culture shock when I post on a different list.
John
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John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈
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