Thread: What is expected of the core libraries?
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Re: What is expected of the core libraries?
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Originally Posted by rbmj View Post
However, I do think that WPILib development should be a community effort rather than a centralized effort. I think that teams should be encouraged to contribute changes and code back to the WPILib project to be integrated and used by all teams. I'm not saying that it should accept everyone's code - it would take a good core team of maintainers to weigh the pros and cons of integrating each change - but even levels of openness such as having a public patch submission and discussion mailing list and allowing anonymous checkouts would be a huge step in the right direction.
There is nothing stopping this from happening as a fork, or in parallel to the code we are supplied. It would require some very dedicated developers with a lot of resources (time and knowledge) who could debug, validate and implement the code changes. The programming assets of FIRST are fairly limited and what they provide us now works for 99.31459% of the teams.