Request for Enhancement: java.io.Writer.of(Appendable) as an efficient alternative to java.io.StringWriter

[David Alayachew]

Hello Markus,

I already posted a response, but since you added more detail, I will adress
that detail too.

> So how to proceed? Stop all my work for many more months?

Address the criticisms (which you did), and knock on the door once or twice
if you get no responses.

But if after all of that, you get lukewarm or no response, then yes, you
should interpret that as a rejection of your idea. You need to get at least
a few people to thumb's up your idea before making a PR, else it is a faux
pas.

One of the goals of these mailing lists is to propose ideas and garner
community approval. I can tell you from 1st and 2nd hand experience that
there are literally >100 developers with over a decade of experience who
read *every single message* that goes through this mailing list. It may not
be immediate, but the above statement becomes true after <3-4 weeks for
each message.

All of that is to say, if your idea did not get picked up by that point,
then that answers your question.

> We need to find a way that allows external contributors like me to
proceed, though.

This mailing list is the way, via the method described above.

> If we haven't enough reviewers / commiters for both, we simply need to
nominate more.

There are more than enough of both. This thread not getting attention is
not for a lack of reviewers or commiters.

On Sun, Feb 9, 2025, 4:35 PM Markus KARG <markus at headcrashing.eu> wrote:

> Alan,
>
> those big projects are really much appreciated by the community.
> Nevertheless there must not be a mutual exclusive situation, as other
> contributors are working on other things which are also appreciated by
> the same community.
>
> So how to proceed? Stop all my work for many more months? Looking at the
> number and status of all those large projects I doubt that this
> situation will change drastically before end of 2025.
>
> We need to find a way that allows external contributors like me to
> proceed, though.
>
> If we haven't enough reviewers / commiters for both, we simply need to
> nominate more.
>
> -Markus
>
>
> Am 09.02.2025 um 20:27 schrieb Alan Bateman:
> > On 26/01/2025 16:37, Markus KARG wrote:
> >>
> >> As there have not been any more comments so far in the past weeks, I
> >> assume there is common agreement with my current proposal.
> >>
> > I don't think you can assume this. There are many large projects and
> > other significant efforts in progress so it's more likely that the
> > maintainers just haven't had any cycles to work through the implications.
> >
> > -Alan
>
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