Note that Apache Ant already provides similar functionality: https://ant.apache.org/manual/api/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/SortFilter.html
Gary On Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 07:38 Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > [Disclaimer: I'm not a user nor a developer of "Commons IO", so > I'm not the most suitable for entertaining this conversation and, > surely, I shouldn't be the only one...] > > Le jeu. 20 juil. 2023 à 10:33, ssz <sss.z...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > Hi > > Sure, I will support my code. > > I have a lot of other opensource projects, not so much free time. > > I have to point out that the two sentences seem to neutralize > themselves... > > > But this code will have the highest priority as Commons is used by > > thousands of developers. > > That's what I've heard, but did not see much of a proof: We have no > reliable way to know where "Commons" code is used. [This was a > feature of open-source, but new regulations might make it a liability...] > More importantly, if true, only a very tiny fraction of those users share > their experience here, so that a quite small number of "regular" > developers end up deciding what is useful. Almost inevitably, the > selection is biased... > > > My other projects are used by hundreds of people. > > That's great, but would not convince (based on the lack of feedback) > a committer here who is not among those users. > > The general problem is: > 1. The active team is not getting bigger. > 2. Those "regular" developers find they have already too much to > handle. > 3. Hence they tend to not easily accept contributions that are (or > seem) likely to require time which they don't have. > 4. This puts off would-be contributors that could have become part > of the active team. > 1. The active team is not getting bigger... > > So I'm trying to find other arguments... > Which projects (ASF?) depend on your proposed contribution? > > Regards, > Gilles > > >>> [...] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
