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 (cont...@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. -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
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