<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ben,<div class=""><br class="">We invited anyone interested including Carter to participate in the design back in February. He did not do so. How much longer do you think we should give him?<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">No serious work has been done on it since September 2014 and numerous promises to do something have never materialised.</div><div class=""><br class="">Is there any part of Carter’s critique that in your view has not been addressed by replies in this thread?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We should be welcoming contributions and improve libraries when the opportunities arise and not wait another 5 years for perfection (which may never arrive).</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Message: 4<br class="">Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 13:11:08 +0200<br class="">From: Ben Franksen <<a href="mailto:ben.franksen@online.de" class="">ben.franksen@online.de</a>><br class="">To: <a href="mailto:libraries@haskell.org" class="">libraries@haskell.org</a><br class="">Subject: Re: Improving Random<br class="">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:rb80gc$3ong$1@ciao.gmane.io" class="">rb80gc$3ong$1@ciao.gmane.io</a>><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8<br class=""><br class="">I agree that communication is an important aspect of maintainership. Not<br class="">responding to PRs for a long period of time is bad because it lets<br class="">people wonder if anything is being done about it at all. That can be<br class="">quite frustrating as I know from my own experience.<br class=""><br class="">That said, Carter's critique of the proposed API (the classes) looks<br class="">valid to me. I understand that coming up with a better API design that<br class="">accommodates all the cool permormance improvements may take its time.<br class=""><br class="">@Carter: why don't you try to eleborate your critique of the proposed<br class="">API on the tracker and present a rough sketch of where you think things<br class="">should go instead. Then you guys can all work together to flesh this out.<br class=""><br class="">My experience is that writing things down helps a lot to get them<br class="">clearer in my head. If the side effect is people feel that their<br class="">contributions are respected and actually worked on, so much the better.<br class=""><br class="">Cheers<br class="">Ben<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Subject: Digest Footer<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Libraries mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Libraries@haskell.org" class="">Libraries@haskell.org</a><br class="">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libraries<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">End of Libraries Digest, Vol 202, Issue 4<br class="">*****************************************<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>