From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA27808; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:12:50 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA26573 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:12:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3HHCmYM030627; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:12:48 +0200 Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA26562; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:12:47 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:12:47 +0200 From: Xavier Leroy To: Alex Baretta Cc: Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How can I lend developers to the Caml team? Message-ID: <20040417191247.A23424@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <407F91BB.1060401@baretta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <407F91BB.1060401@baretta.com>; from alex@baretta.com on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:56:43AM +0200 X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 flights:99 runtime:01 runtime:01 fragment:01 real-world:01 camlp:01 compiler:01 compiler:01 cristal:01 compilers:01 semantics:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > How can I "donate" some developers to the Caml team? I have asked Xavier > personally, but he's probably very busy and might have missed my mail. The only mail I got from you recently (last Tuesday) was about possible topics for a student internship, which isn't quite what you're describing in this message. So, maybe I missed something. As for the "very busy" part: the Tuesday mail arrived while I was connecting flights at Helsinki airport on my way to the "Applied Semantics" workshop, from which I returned yesterday night, so you see that I was hard-pressed to reply any earlier :-) > Essentially, since Ocaml is the "the language of choice for the > discriminating" software company ;) we feel the need to participate > actively in the development of the core compiler and runtime. We'll discuss this need in private -- the first thing is probably to identify what itch you'd like to scratch. Generally speaking, there is a lot to be done in the Caml world (as many discussions on this list point out), but mainly outside the "core compiler and runtime" fragment. > I am actually asking the Caml team to accept real-world, live people, to > cooperate with them. We are willing to put one or two developers into > the core Ocaml, if the Projet Cristal is willing to "let them in", so to > speak. I hope this isn't going to turn in an experiment to determine how much "Cathedral" we INRIA folks are (answer: very much so). Additional manpower and external contributions are most welcome, but as I indicated above, the demand is mostly on 3rd-party libraries and tools. Some parts of the core OCaml distribution could use outside help (e.g. Windows support, reorganization of the Camlp4 sources, Makefile reengineering), provided copyright and maintenance issues can be resolved. But the compilers and core runtime system don't need additional manpower, in my opinion. - Xavier Leroy ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners