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 pBJHZSWx020622 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:35:28 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApUFAGB1707UGyoDlGdsb2JhbABEqjOBMCIBAQEBBwILCQkUAyKBcgEBBThAARALGAkWDwkDAgECAUUGDQEFAgEBEIdouDeMBASUfoVOjGE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,377,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="136062922" Received: from smtp3-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.3]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 19 Dec 2011 18:35:22 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.10] (unknown [78.192.0.38]) by smtp3-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2B7A6487; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:35:15 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4EEF75D1.5050901@frisch.fr> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:35:13 +0100 From: Alain Frisch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Romain Beauxis CC: Mehdi Dogguy , Benedikt Meurer , Xavier Leroy , caml users References: <55531934-37A5-4CC5-AB67-20CE4CCE8269@googlemail.com> <4EE37070.4010702@inria.fr> <4EE5D593.9060708@inria.fr> <4EE5F173.1080607@dogguy.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) On 12/19/2011 5:09 AM, Romain Beauxis wrote: > On this point, I believe that it would be very nice to have, indeed, a > clearer integration process and more communication from the core > development team. For instance, if I would be to propose a complete > rewrite of OCaml's build system, I'd like to know beforehand if my > changes have any chance to be integrated and, if so, how should I > tackle the issue in order to facilitates this integration (split up > the changes in several patches, post them for review somewhere etc..). Jonathan Protzenko has started to write down some guidelines how to contribute most effectively to OCaml. These ideas are being discussed, and should be published soon. For a big project like the one you mention (a complete rewrite of OCaml's build system), it is always a good idea to contact the development team first with a detailed proposal and wait for some feedback before doing the heavy work. Contacting the development team can be done either via the bug tracker or by email (caml@inria.fr) Alain