Contributing to the Amber docs

[Julian Waters]

Ah, I see. Thanks for the input Brian, I'll keep that in mind

best regards,
Julian

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 3:40 AM Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

> The eg-drafts folder exists as a place for attachments to the EG list, for
> things that can't be represented as inline text (e.g., PDF files, images.)
>
> I think one of the reasons you've had trouble getting feedback is that you
> are presenting *solutions* before presenting a clear explanation of the
> problem you are trying to solve, and then getting caught up in the surface
> details of the solution.  First, you need to convince people there is a
> problem; then you need to convince them that its a problem that needs to be
> solved in the language; only then can you start to explore potential
> solutions (usually not just one) in the language.
>
>
>
> On 4/29/2022 7:24 AM, Julian Waters wrote:
>
> Darn, that's a bummer. Thanks for the reply though, I'll see what I can do
> with just the mailing list for now to get feedback on anything new (The
> last one seems to be the hard part)
>
> best regards,
> Julian
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 2:55 PM Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>
>
> Nope :)
>
> You have to convince people first by posting your issue/feature on the
> mailing list.
>
> The best is to first write a blog post, gather opinions on it and then
> post the result on the mailing list, because the bar to introduce a feature
> in Java is quite high so it's very important to have a very good the first
> draft.
>
> regards,
> Rémi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Julian Waters" <tanksherman27 at gmail.com> <tanksherman27 at gmail.com>
> To: "amber-dev" <amber-dev at openjdk.java.net> <amber-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2022 4:31:40 AM
> Subject: Contributing to the Amber docs
>
> Hi all,
>
> Are the drafts in the amber docs (https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/tree/master/eg-drafts) open for
> suggestions for new language syntax and features?
>
> best regards,
> Julian
>
>
>