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@@ -373,39 +373,70 @@ namespace. <div id="content-tag"><h1 id="toc0">An Overview of the <span id="header-project">clojure-contrib</span> API <span id="branch-name">(master branch)</span></h1> <br /> -<div id="project-description"><h1 id="toc0">An Overview of the Clojure Core API</h1> -<br /> -This is API documentation for the latest committed checkin of the Clojure core. -<h3>Important Clojure resources</h3> +<div id="project-description">The user contributions library, clojure.contrib, is a collection +of namespaces each of which implements features that we believe may be useful to +a large part of the clojure community. +<br /><br /> +This library was created by Rich Hickey but has been populated and is maintained by a +group of volunteers who are excited about the success of the Clojure language and +want to do our part to help it along. The current list of contributors is available +on the <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/"> +clojure-contrib GitHub source page</a>. +<br /><br /> +More contributions (and contributors) are welcome. If you wish to contribute, you will need +to sign a contributor agreement (which allows Clojure and clojure.contrib to proceed +without entanglements, see <a href="http://clojure.org/contributing">contributing</a> +for more info). +<br /><br /> +The best way to start is to share a project you've written with the google group and gauge +the interest in adding it to contrib. (Publishing it in an open source form on google code, +github or some other easy-to-access place in the net will also help.) After general +discussion, Rich Hickey makes the final determination about what gets added to +clojure.contrib. +<br /><br /> +Some parts of clojure.contrib may migrate into clojure.core if they prove to be so +generally useful that they justify being everywhere. (For example, condp started out +as an extension in contrib, but was moved to core by popular acclamation.) +<br /><br /> +The exact role of clojure.contrib and the future of the Clojure environment (standard +libraries, dependency models, packaging systems, etc.) +is the subject of pretty much continuous discussion +in the clojure google group and in #clojure on freenode. Feel free to join that +discussion and help shape the ways Clojure is extended. +<br /><br /> +Like Clojure itself, clojure.contrib is made available under the +<a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License (EPL)</a>. +clojure.contrib is copyright 2008-2009 Rich Hickey and the various contributors. +<br /><br /> +<h3>Important clojure-contrib resources</h3> <ul> - <li>The official source code for clojure is on the - <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure/"> - Clojure GitHub source page + <li>The official source code for clojure-contrib is on the + <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/"> + clojure-contrib GitHub source page </a>. </li> - <li>Issues and other information for clojure are maintained in the - <a href="http://www.assembla.com/spaces/dashboard/index/clojure"> - Clojure Assembla space + <li>Issues and other information for clojure-contrib are maintained in the + <a href="http://www.assembla.com/spaces/dashboard/index/clojure-contrib"> + clojure-contrib Assembla space </a>. </li> - <li>This documentation is maintained in the gh-pages branch of clojure + <li>This documentation is maintained in the gh-pages branch of clojure-contrib on GitHub and is always available online - <a href="http://richhickey.github.com/clojure"> - GitHub pages for Clojure - </a>. - If you wish to have a version for off-line use you can use the download + <a href="http://richhickey.github.com/clojure-contrib"> + GitHub pages for clojure-contrib + </a>. If you wish to have a version for off-line use you can use the download button on the - <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure/tree/gh-pages"> + <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/tree/gh-pages"> gh-pages branch page at GitHub </a>. </li> - <li>Issues related to clojure and the various pieces of functionality + <li>Issues related to clojure-contrib and the various pieces of functionality within it are discussed in the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/clojure"> Clojure Google group </a>. </li> - <li>Discussions among clojure developers take place in the + <li>Discussions among clojure-contrib developers take place in the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/clojure-dev"> Clojure Dev Google group </a>. |