On Mon, 15 Feb 2016, Gregg Reynolds wrote: > On Feb 11, 2016 6:19 AM, "Aysylu Greenberg" <aysy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm pleased to announce that Paul Snyder > (@pataprogramming, pataprogramming on Github) has joined me in maintaining > Loom. I'm excited for the coming year for Loom, with more excellent > contributions accepted faster. > > Your Readme doesn't even bother to say what loom is.
Hi, Gregg, Thanks for pointing out an area where additional clarification would be helpful to potential users of Loom. Who is the 'you' that this criticism is intended to address? Aysylu, who's been serving as maintainer for this library over the last years? Justin, who originally created it? The over two dozen contributors who have helped build its functionality? Suggesting that they didn't "even bother" with something is, frankly, rude and unproductive. I'm happy we don't see much of this sort of casual disrespect in the Clojure community (with the exception of occasional bad actors on the mailing list). The worst of what we do see is, largely, aimed at those who contribute the most: the team that maintains Clojure itself. People who are willing to invest their time to make and share useful tools are a resource. They should be allowed to direct their energy toward making those tools better, rather than having it drained by jerky interactions. Whether we find a project personally useful or not, we owe Open Source authors, at a minimum, politeness. This is at least partially in our own interest: we want them to keep making those tools, rather than burning out and switching to a more rewarding activity. Here's an article on framing feedback in a less confrontational and accusatory manner. http://personalexcellence.co/blog/constructive-criticism/ "Thanks for sharing Loom. There's a lot of information in the README, but I found it difficult to figure out what the library actually does. It would be helpful to have a concise, up-front description of its purpose." Regards, Paul -- 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.
