Post #91

The PTB-ecosystem is growing! Over time, we have seen a lot of awesome code from the community, ranging from custom handlers to additional convenience methods and full grown extension packages, and we're always eager to see how PTB is used for this wide variety of use cases. While some of you made feature requests or even pull requests to add additional functionality to PTB, we often had to decline them as those features were too specific for a general purpose library and maintaining them would have resulted in a big amount of extra work. Sadly this leads to a lot of code being written all over again by users. This is why we're happy to announce a new library: ptbcontrib - a place for community based extensions. Let us describe the idea of ptbcontrib in a few bullet points: • Everyone is welcome to contribute! • No releases - ptbcontrib is installed directly from GitHub. So no waiting for maintainers to make time for a release • No limit on 3rd party requirements: Your contribution is welcome to rely on other libraries We hope to encourage exchange of code within the PTB community with this library and are looking forward to your involvement. You wrote a date picker menu? Cool! An anonymous forward method? We love it. A database-based persistence class? The holy grail! Have a look at the contribution guide and the example contribution and you're ready to go. Happy coding!