You're going to be a great maintainer, Paul. On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 5:30:04 PM UTC-5, Paul L. Snyder wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Feb 2016, Gregg Reynolds wrote: > > > On Feb 11, 2016 6:19 AM, "Aysylu Greenberg" <ays...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> 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 >
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