Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)

[Jonathan Protzenko <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com>]

Just for the record, caml@inria.fr also happens to be list where the 
members of the Caml Consortium discuss their issues. There's potentially 
private/sensitive information in there, and it's not always clear what 
relates to the consortium member's interests, and what is more about 
language design. So having a third list just to discuss language design 
issues is not as easy as it seems.

Cheers,

jonathan

On 12/09/2011 12:17 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> 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
> <snip>
>> 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* :-))
>