State of Play

[dsimcha]

== Quote from Ary Borenszweig (ary at esperanto.org.ar)'s article
> When I download a library for Java, Python or C#, I download it,
> reference it and it works. If I had to fix something for it to work, I
> woudldn't use it. Mainly because to fix it I'd had to understand the
> code, and I just want to understand the interface.
> If you have to modify a library when you download it just to make it
> work (not to tweak it), that's a huge problem for me.

Agreed, but if the library is being actively maintained, the library developer
will do this.  If it's not being maintained, well, we do have a lot of abandoned
stuff out on dource, but I wouldn't want to use a library if noone understands it
and cares enough to fix a few trivial bugs.