Corefxlab: Status of Microsoft.Collections.Experimental?

[SamuelEnglard]

What is the Roadmap for Microsoft.Collections.Experimental? I want to use MultiValueDictionary<TKey, TValue> but being an experiment...

[danmoseley]

We definitely want to take this forward but have been absorbed by 3.0 work. We are also thinking whether it may make sense to have a dedicated repo. You could easily embed it if for internal use..

[SamuelEnglard]

I'm going the embedding route for now. What should I do for legal?

[Rodrigo-Andrade]

Is this alive?

[danmoseley]

@Rodrigo-Andrade no, we would take PR's but our time available for it is quite limited. We don't expect to break the API without good reason, if that answers the original question: it should be good for production use. But we may not add more types.

As for the future -- I would be interested to see a dotnet/collections repo, that is community owned, for any collections that aren't broadly applicable/stable enough to go into the core libraries. That could move more quickly than Microsoft - there's clearly folks passionate about the long tail of collections. Thoughts? Some discussion started here https://github.com/dotnet/corefxlab/pull/2613#issuecomment-665120239

[SamuelEnglard]

@danmosemsft Where should we do the discussion over the "dotnet/collections" idea? Here, on #2613, somewhere else?

[danmoseley]

cc @eerhardt

[eerhardt]

Where should we do the discussion over the "dotnet/collections" idea?

Maybe the best place would be to create a new discussion at https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/discussions. That seems the most appropriate, and will give the most visibility to the discussion.

[danmoseley]

Linking to https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/discussions/42205

[SamuelEnglard]

Closing in favor of the discussion