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Crystal 1.0 is out – What's next?

Beta Ziliani - Manas.Tech | Crystal Core Team

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Before 1.0

Language and its ecosystem
Technical challenges
Financial viability

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1.0 is out

Time for a new commitment

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With 1.0

Stability

Improve processes and communication

Native support on major platforms

Grow the team

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1. Stability

Non-breaking changes

Focus on bug-fixes

Fixed scheme of releases

A new one every 3 months

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2. Improve processes and communication

Governance document

Team section on the website

Blog posts

Community manager needed!

Diversity

Second, and somewhat related to the previous item, we want to improve the internal decision making processes within the core team, and improve communication with the community. In this respect, we have a few cool things to mention:

We have elaborated a Governance Document that outlines all the important aspects of the decision-making process within the Core Team
We have published a Team section on the site where all members of the team are listed, to make visible who are the people behind the language, their role, and their status –because not all members are currently active
As a way to increase transparency around the language, we have been making efforts to write as many blog posts as possible to keep the community updated on important issues and decisions that we make: the new members of the team, new releases, and so on and so forth. This is a good opportunity to mention that we have opened a position for a community manager, who will help us in this direction; so, if you know someone who fits the profile, send them our way.
Last but certainly not least, we want to shift our attention towards the problem of diversity: almost every programming language community has this issue, and it won’t go away unless we do something about it. We want to take affirmative action to broaden the diversity of our community. If you're listening and you have ideas about possible actions or want to help us in any way in this regard, please contact me.

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3. Platform support

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4. Grow the team

Say hi to Oleh!
Still need more power

Ideally: contractors or employees devoted full-time

We need funding to get there

As the fourth and last pillar, Having a language that is very actively developed by different members of a community requires people and time to review PRs, have discussions, make decisions, and so on. For this reason, we need to grow the Core Team.

In this sense, our latest addition to the team was Oleh, which we are very happy about. But the need still stands. We realize that independent contributors have been a fundamental part of Crystal’s growth, but in the future we want to have more members who are fully dedicated to developing Crystal. This will allow us to move faster and not be forced to choose what we focus on, or do so leaving less things out.

The best way to do that is for more members of the Core Team to work, either as employees or contractors within Manas, fully dedicated to Crystal. That provides a frame for them to contribute consistently, on a daily basis, to the language. This, of course, requires a larger contribution from sponsors, so we have to approach the building of that bridge from both banks.

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FOCUS ON WHAT WE WANT TO BUILD

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Looking towards the future

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We need to�KEEP GROWING

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Up next..

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THANK YOU