> We have one -1 right now for both contributions and scratchpad. > > I am trying to work with Brian to satisfy his issues.
My objection is not to either a contributions area or a scratchpad, its to putting them in the lucene repo. Lucene is, right now, quite small. And that's a good thing! I think keeping it small and simple has a lot of value. I think the proposed idea of putting the scratchpad in the commons is fine, and I'd agree to that. I think that's what commons is for, anyway. As far as contrib, here's my objection. contrib directories grow pretty quickly, are rarely well indexed or documented, and tend to decay -- eventually a lot of contributed code will stop building, if not stop working. Contributed code is of varying levels of usefulness, correctness, documentedness, and other qualities. Eventually, the contrib area becomes a burden. And it often swamps the size of the core source tree. I prefer making it a separate repo. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
