library author interaction
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Haskell is the only language where I've seen the author of a library sending patches to programs that use it, just to make their use of the library better, avoid breakage in new versions, etc.
Also, the author of the Raaz library recently got in touch with me, since I used it, looking for feedback from a user about how the API could be improved.
This seems very unusual, but also like something that should not be unusual..
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That's nice of them.
Perhaps, most library developers expect users to get in touch with them about usage etc?
Inside Google this is apparently the norm, with lots of tooling to support https://acawiki.org/Why_Google_Stores_Billions_of_Lines_of_Code_in_a_Single_Repository ... probably happens to lesser extent within many organizations, but Google's huge scale makes it seem more relevant/aspirational for worldwide FLOSS, or that's how it strikes me. I don't know that practice has been studied at all, but also feels to me like should be usual.