From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pB89sVAB016860 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:54:31 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ag8BAGmI4E7B/BfSkWdsb2JhbABDqwYBAQEBCQsLBxQDIoFyAQEFOEEQCxIGCSUPAjgOBg0BBQIBARAHh263BYs7BJRrhUuMXA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,319,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="134510928" Received: from msa01.smtpout.orange.fr (HELO msa.smtpout.orange.fr) ([193.252.23.210]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2011 10:54:31 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.102] ([83.199.18.102]) by mwinf5d03 with ME id 6ZuW1i00E2C8GJT03ZuWQe; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:54:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4EE08955.30207@frisch.fr> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:54:29 +0100 From: Alain Frisch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benedikt Meurer CC: caml users References: <55531934-37A5-4CC5-AB67-20CE4CCE8269@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <55531934-37A5-4CC5-AB67-20CE4CCE8269@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) On 12/08/2011 10:10 AM, Benedikt Meurer wrote: > There were already a few useful comments on the topic, but no statement from the current INRIA officials. Opening up the development of OCaml is a great suggestion, for example. Personally I'd even suggest to disconnect OCaml and INRIA, with an independent team of core maintainers (with appropriate spare time and knowledge). INRIA would still contribute to OCaml, but no longer control OCaml. Honestly, opening up the development of OCaml would be terrific; but trying to disconnect it from INRIA sounds like a very bad idea to me. Concerning the issues with the ARM port, there is no chance to get a good support for this architecture (which includes accepting patches) without someone in the core team who feels responsible for the port and commits to maintaining it. You might want to create a new "core team" completely disconnected from INRIA, but the problem would remain the same (I don't believe in a completely decentralized development model for something like OCaml). Instead, I'd suggest contacting the existing core team (caml@inria.fr) in order to find a solution. Best regards, Alain