On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 3:15:53 PM UTC-4, Andy Fingerhut wrote: > > > The "rough edges" show up on a lot of things in the Clojure ecosystem. I > know I suck at documentation which is why I moved clojure.java.jdbc’s > documentation out to > http://clojure-doc.org/articles/ecosystem/java_jdbc/home.html which can > be maintained by the community through Pull Requests etc. *In two years, > there have been just two small changes from the community: the rest of the > updates are from me, despite several people complaining about the > documentation being unclear or insufficient.* >
Perhaps the barrier to participation is simply too high to get many contributors. Consider Wikipedia's: go to website, click edit, fix/add something. No pull requests, no written and snail-mailed(!) CAs, no creating yet *another* login/pass pair to remember, no other hoops to jump through. Argue all you want about why <insert hoop here> is *absolutely essential* to keep the vandals/copyright infringers/terrorists/spammers/whoever out; it won't change the empirical fact that you only get mass participation when the entry barrier is *very* low (even a free registration is a substantial deterrent that will cut participation by an order of magnitude or more). Or the empirical fact that Wikipedia actually works pretty darn well... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
