Re: [racket-users] Re: on-boarding new racketeers

2019-08-14 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi Alexis, On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:58 AM Alexis King wrote: > I think the time and energy Stephen has dedicated to the community should > be thanked and appreciated, Thank you. I can't express how much this means to me. I'd like to personally thank you for your efforts. Your 'outreach'

Re: [racket-users] Re: on-boarding new racketeers

2019-08-14 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thanks for this Neil. On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 2:28 AM Neil Van Dyke wrote: > I know this particular one is a minor thing, but they add up, over time... > > Please consider approaches that are open, rather than owned, and try not > to increase lock-in by big-business plays. > > It's pragmatic to

Re: [racket-users] Re: on-boarding new racketeers

2019-08-13 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Alexis, I appreciate the recent enthusiasm and efforts. I helped build the current small Racket community (really starting when I moved to it exclusively, after developing portable open source for all the Schemes).  My name is still up there with yours on

Re: [racket-users] Re: on-boarding new racketeers

2019-08-13 Thread Alexis King
Oh, come on. “Adding labels to repositories” and “adding issue templates” isn’t “increasing lock-in.” There’s no slippery slope here. I think the time and energy Stephen has dedicated to the community should be thanked and appreciated, not discouraged. I’m frustrated by the number of words you

Re: [racket-users] Re: on-boarding new racketeers

2019-08-13 Thread Neil Van Dyke
I know this particular one is a minor thing, but they add up, over time... Please consider approaches that are open, rather than owned, and try not to increase lock-in by big-business plays. It's pragmatic to keep using GitHub in limited ways right now, *but* part of that is being judicious