On 2/11/14, 12:31 PM, Joseph Cassman wrote:
Although I haven't yet contributed to the project by sending any pull requests I am interested in doing so. Perhaps the main thing that keeps holding me back is I feel it is hard to know what currently is being worked on with the current setup (i.e. who is doing what, will my efforts duplicate someone else's, will I be stepping on anyone's toes, will my solution idea be incompatible with the direction in which the language is moving). I frequent the forums and still find it hard to get an overall picture. This is probably my lack of not trying hard enough (e.g. I never have time to spend on IRC). I saw the Trello board before and I felt that it helped me get up to speed on who is doing what, what is being worked on, etc. If you brought it, or something like it, back that would be appreciated.
Thanks for the feedback. Hanging out on IRC should not be necessary.
Sorry to change the subject but one thing that keeps discouraging me from trying to contribute code changes is the large number of unmerged pull requests in GitHub.
Yes. I think that's a disaster. We need to figure out the right approach to solving that.
Since I am not a reviewer I am afraid that any effort I perform will get ignored and so I hold back since I have other stuff to do too. I know that this is something that concerns you a lot from reading other forums discussions so I apologize if this sounds like a complaint. I appreciate the work of all involved and know that no one has infinite time or energy. Not even sure if I could contribute to the code-base but would be nice to try. Managing a project is never easy. My hat's off to you and Walter for your efforts in that regard.
Thanks! We're doing best we can but I am convinced we can do a lot better, and am looking at some out-of-the-box things to try.
Andrei
