On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Joaquín Oltra <[email protected]> wrote:
> Personally I was quite sad to see that I couldn't even contribute typo > fixes to the elm guide when I was going through it. For such a friendly > language when working with it, it seems very community averse in many > places. I felt like I wasn't trusted or welcomed, neither my time or > contributions, so I haven't bothered to even try further. I'm not sure if > this happens to others, but if it does then it means we're losing on > creating a community of contributors, which is an extremely important > factor to keep the ecosystem working at scale if the language wants to grow. > >From what I've seen and what was shared with me in private messages, you are not alone in feeling sad and unwelcomed. I've seen apathy (people who try Elm and then either return to JS or move to something like PureScript/TypeScript ) I've seen sadness (this is by far the most frequent because, most people love Elm and want to contribute) I've seen anger (people who talk about forking - I seriously doubt we'll see something this dramatic anytime soon) The second issue, related but different I think, is the one explicitly > mentioned by Ryan Rempel and Daniel Bachler about sharing solutions for > common problems. This can be solved by a group of people accepting the risks of Native code and distributing the burden of breaking changes. It shouldn't even be very hard to implement a proof of concept if there is enough will. All that needs to be done is to have all the projects into one collaboration space (elm-community is a good candidate) and a set of elm-extra-tools that could be installed with npm that would basically download the Native implementations into elm-stuff/extra/ and add the needed paths to "source-directories" in elm-package.json. One could also have an elm-extra-package.json to keep track of all the outside-main-repository packages. This way, people who need the native technologies can collaborate and share solutions while in the same time keeping the main package repository clean of dangerous code. -- There is NO FATE, we are the creators. blog: http://damoc.ro/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
