From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pB9BI7us009608 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:18:07 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAE/t4U5befWq/2dsb2JhbABDqneBBYFyAQEFMgE1BhsLGA0hFBhYB4dutkKIWII3YwSUb4pthzw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,325,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="122733084" Received: from upsilon.hackadomia.org ([91.121.245.170]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 09 Dec 2011 12:18:02 +0100 Received: from usha.takhisis.invalid (zack.inria.fr [128.93.60.82]) by upsilon.hackadomia.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AAEB7100D1 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:18:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by usha.takhisis.invalid (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8C1E460E4; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:17:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:17:59 +0100 From: Stefano Zacchiroli To: caml-list@inria.fr Message-ID: <20111209111759.GB2594@upsilon.cc> References: <55531934-37A5-4CC5-AB67-20CE4CCE8269@googlemail.com> <1323427075.32238.91.camel@arrakis> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:03:30PM +0100, Gabriel Scherer wrote: > when discussion programming language matters, there is usually an > extraordinary amount of bike-shedding > I would love, for example, a kind of read-only mode where we hear > about the discussion, without adding noise to it Well, *if* this is the problem, then the solutions to it are well known and adopted by other communities that maintain programming languages: just add a "core-dev" mailing list, where only list members could post, and someone who moderates subscription requests. Such a think will also help defining who the core team are and give some sort of public reward to who makes into it. Given that (as discussed in this threader) there already OCaml committers who are not affiliated to INRIA, that would also dispel the feeling that OCaml is an INRIA pet. ( Now probably Benedikt will probably want to kill both me and Gabriel for thread hijack, *again* :-)) -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences ...... http://upsilon.cc/zack ...... . . o Debian Project Leader ....... @zack on identi.ca ....... o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »