Coordinate PULL REQUESTs

[gsscoder]

Dear actual or future contributors,
due to deep changes to command line parser kernel, I'm not able to accept PR without previous coordination.

This is true for both master and devel-* branch.

This is a general good rule, but in this case is a key necessity.

PR are always welcome, but when there are such ongoing change -> merging could be difficult (or impossible) and so coordination is required.

Hope this don't stop you from sending PR.

develop-* branch:

• Even if some good refactoring occured in that branch, my attempt to transform the kernel in something new ended up in over-engineering when solving old code smells created new code smells (there's nothing to hide, this is the truth).
• I'm drafting the new kernel outside the project repo for explore new possibilities. Expect this work to become master ASAP.

Giacomo Stelluti Scala

PS: this guide helped me, but don't take the title as statement of mine (http://goo.gl/xJFE1) -> read it!

[gsscoder]

Why the kernel is under heavy refactoring? This is done for following reasons:

• enhance extensibility
• enhance maintainability (adding feature will be a lot easier)
• enhance robustness
• simplify as more as possible the codebase
• simplify as more as possible the test codebase (ahh...)

Gains? Implicit in points.

Finality: give everyone an even better library... ;))

[hanson-andrew]

I'm somewhat confused as to where this project stands now. Are you currently accepting pull requests as long as you're aware of them beforehand or is the refactoring work still ongoing?

[nemec]

@hanson-andrew it doesn't look like the code has been worked on recently, so it's probably as stable as it's going to get right now.

I'd recommend bringing up any possible new features in an Issue to get some feedback first, though.

[hanson-andrew]

Will do. I just wanted to make sure as it seemed like more work might be incoming. Thanks!

[gsscoder]

This discussion is now superseded, a lot of PRs has been merged. I close this issue/announcement.