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 pB8GgHDA002380 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:42:17 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjABAP/n4E7RVdY2kGdsb2JhbABDhQalWQgiAQEBAQkJDQcUBCGBcgEBAQQSAg8dATcCAwwBBQUYCRYLAgIJAwIBAgEiAQUBHBMGAgEBEA6HZ5piCoscgzOERokuAgUMiBeCAoEWBI4SgRaFQ4VLgTSGcT2BTYIt X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,320,1320620400"; d="vcf'?scan'208";a="122626916" Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com ([209.85.214.54]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 08 Dec 2011 17:42:11 +0100 Received: by bkbzv15 with SMTP id zv15so2976373bkb.27 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:42:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=WGARJLByOQdaAtibqeESZAU3fHAmC/cDWUlh159cAsk=; b=dAO8XCFm68E6lS7dk2jwVOxJBkgQ0/D/283B0yIwbE2TjPnhV0Ik/dxFz4rvGihtjm H2fbXtUXLxBItIi105064+nh666I161+dOTEB7fmyjuHCJd4MpkoJJrdFrBh9WwO8kNw tNyNWh3znjSSA6QjP7Lxt25XKemHfIq8Ag71o= Received: by 10.204.148.67 with SMTP id o3mr1869439bkv.130.1323362531292; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:42:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [193.55.250.228] (chercheurs2-228.saclay.inria.fr. [193.55.250.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fa8sm4228139bkc.14.2011.12.08.08.42.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:42:10 -0800 (PST) Sender: Fabrice Le Fessant Message-ID: <4EE0E8DE.9000108@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:42:06 +0100 From: Fabrice Le Fessant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110922 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <55531934-37A5-4CC5-AB67-20CE4CCE8269@googlemail.com> <4EE08955.30207@frisch.fr> <4EE09590.2060705@frisch.fr> In-Reply-To: <4EE09590.2060705@frisch.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090209080600020801070404" X-Validation-by: fabrice.le_fessant@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090209080600020801070404 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As Alain said, the core team is important, it is the label of quality of OCaml, but there is a real need to enlarge the existing core team, who cannot cope anymore with reviewing and integrating all the contributions. However, it cannot be done by just opening the doors to all volunteers: people have to prove that they can not only write very good, very useful code, but also commit to support it for years. This last point is a long-term process, and OCamlPro has been created with this idea in mind. The company has been founded in April this year, and is growing slowly, but steadily, thanks to the trust and support of its first customers. Of course, once OCamlPro joins the core team, the control will still be at INRIA, but there will be more manpower to review contributions, improve them and integrate them in the official distribution, so things are going to move. Of course, people who want to make this process complete faster, are welcome to help it, for example by making their companies and universities officially support OCamlPro (contact@ocamlpro.com). --Fabrice On 12/08/2011 11:46 AM, Alain Frisch wrote: > Yes, I argue for opening the current model a little, by enlarging the > existing core team. Creating a new "core team" would create more > frustration and problems than it would solve, in my opinion. We have > enough fragmentation in this community. --------------090209080600020801070404 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="fabrice_le_fessant.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="fabrice_le_fessant.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Fabrice LE FESSANT n:LE FESSANT;Fabrice org:INRIA Saclay -- Ile-de-France;P2P & OCaml adr;quoted-printable:;;Parc Orsay Universit=C3=A9 ;Orsay CEDEX;;91893;France email;internet:fabrice.le_fessant@inria.fr title;quoted-printable:Charg=C3=A9 de Recherche tel;work:+33 1 74 85 42 14 tel;fax:+33 1 74 85 42 49 url:http://fabrice.lefessant.net/ version:2.1 end:vcard --------------090209080600020801070404--