On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Evan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Use ports!
>
> Support for "web platform" things will expand as quickly is as manageable
> with all the other things that need to happen.
>

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elm-discuss/oQz5_HvsdcQ/BFN_rLIDAgAJ

Evan,

Here is what I see:

Fred attempted to expand the support for the "web platform".
He did all the work and produced a package that follows, to the best of his
abilities, the latest guidelines.
He even went as far as to gift this package to elm-lang.org.
He opened an issue and there are a number of people who saw that issue and
expressed interest in having this solved (even if they did it only by
giving the issue a thumbs-up) .

There was NO official feedback on that issue in the past 7 days since it
was published.
No comment, no label, no feedback either way.
And now you say "Use ports!" like that doesn't even exist.

I realize that there are other important things that need to happen but
maybe you should take some time and create some Community Guidelines that
would include a detailed checklist for contributing.

Make it easier for people like Fred who are actively trying to help to
actually help.
Make it easier for people who see people like Fred to become like Fred
(active contributors).

I realize that there are technical concerns and maybe legal concerns but
all these can be solved by adopting a clear and solid contribution process.

You said last year:
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Evan Czaplicki <[email protected]> wrote:

> I tend to be more conservative and risk averse on technical stuff, so I
> tend to be a control freak.
>

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elm-discuss/np3BO9X5rEc/jG3AIiU2zYEJ

That's perfectly fine and one of the reasons Elm evolves so nicely BUT it
is also one of the reasons Elm develops way slower than it needs to.

Jeff pointed last year to ZeroMQ community as a source of inspiration. I
would LOVE for Elm community to follow a similar contract.

On a side note, Pieter Hinjens recently distilled all his previous work on
community building into a free book. Here is the chapter on the C4
( Collective Code Construction Contract )
<https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/chapter4.html> it
documents the reasons for why things are the way they are.

So, in closing, help us help you make Elm even greater than it already is.
:)

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