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I notice they ask financial donations but not help with development. Since we are developers and not investors, we are much more capable of donating our time. W
by rodorgas 9y ago
I notice they ask financial donations but not help with development. Since we are developers and not investors, we are much more capable of donating our time. What makes code contribution not useful (or irrelevant) in comparison to money in Crystal? It would increase “hours invested above donations”, but it's not a problem as their graph is trying to show.
- mseebach 9y agoProbably for "mythical man-month" related reasons. It's far from trivial to manage a large number of relatively small contributions from a large group of diverse developers.
- RX14 9y agoWe gladly welcome contributions, please feel free to donate your time! However there are some tasks that are much easier to deliver and design as a small team, instead of being able to be broken up into small parts where work can be done by the community. We simply doubt someone is going to come along with the time and drive to complete rewriting the whole fiber scheduler and concurrency part of the stdlib as an external contribution. That being said, Windows support is likely to be largely done by the community and core team in tandem, as individual modules can be ported one-by-one. There's also the overhead of managing all these open-source contributions which takes time.