>From http://elm-lang.org/blog/farewell-to-frp#what-is-next-

I know some people are eager to help with creating these libraries. Please 
give me some time to develop a coherent process for making sure a desire to 
help can also translate into great results.


The message you quote says a similar thing. Lots of things need to happen. 
It is not possible to do everything at the same time. Seven days is not a 
long time, especially when they contain a 3 day weekend. Especially when I 
have a set of goals for the next few weeks based on what *I *think are the 
most important things to get done.

One of my short term goals is to finally get process bot 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/elm-dev/process$20bot/elm-dev/SnfGqk5XBgg/c1IpV4UvAgAJ>
 
working to help with this. Literally addressing this exact issue because I 
know it's important and it can be done better. I want process bot to talk 
about expectations 
<https://github.com/process-bot/the-process/blob/master/expectations.md> in 
a way that is very relevant. I wrote that a long time ago, but instead of 
finishing the project, I worked on "the most important thing" so it is 
still not communicated clearly.

I think this comment 
<https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-package/pull/177#issuecomment-220825568> is 
a nice illustration of this. It turns out (1) I was working on 0.17 which 
was pretty important and (2) the actual situation was more complicated than 
everyone thought. When I finally got a chance to give it my full attention, 
the outcome was pretty great! So yes, it could have been quicker, but I 
also think it's hard to retroactively disagree with my prioritization 
decisions once I was able to actually get them out the door.

In the case you are reacting to, I am basically saying: for someone just 
trying to make something, use ports. That'll be fast and it'll work. Yes, 
there are things going on that might make it easier *later*, but they are 
not ready yet. So I read things as "I know you want to achieve X today, but 
instead of telling you how, I will tell you about something that is not 
released yet." Everything there is true, but it's not good advice for that 
person!


On Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 8:35:24 AM UTC-7, Justin wrote:
>
> +1 on everything your saying here Peter. Thanks for linking the C4 book 
> really interesting and applicable read so far.

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