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 (c...@inria.fr)
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