Yes and vibrant open source projects need other outside contributors - that's not the point that is being made. Bringing it into the stdlib guarantees a level of support independent of the community. That guarantee doesn't depend on anyone one community members or even multiple members but by all of the maintainers of the stdlib.
On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 11:34:06 AM UTC-7, Paul Borman wrote: > > I would like to point out that Go itself is maintained by The Community. > Sure Google has employees dedicated to Go (we use it internally, of > course), but Go has been, since the beginning, and open source project with > serious contributions from within and without Google. > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Andy Balholm <andyb...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> What do you mean by “community”? Is it those of us who aren’t employed by >> Google? >> >> Is it any more unfair for the Go team at Google to expect Gustavo (or >> others) to maintain his YAML package than for some in the community to >> expect the Go team to take it over? >> >> Andy >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
