Re: [Caml-list] About contributions to the Standard Library

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:56:43PM +0200, Damien Doligez wrote:
> Dear Ocaml contributors and users,
> 
> I would like to call to your attention the section below,
> which was recently added to the CONTRIBUTING.md file in the
> OCaml source repository.
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> -- Damien
> 
> 
> ## Contributing to the standard library
> 
> Contributions to the standard library are very welcome.  There is some
> widespread belief in the community than the stdlib is somehow "frozen"
> and that its evolutions are mostly driven by the need of the OCaml
> compiler itself.  Let's be clear: this is just plain wrong. The
> compiler is happy with its own local utility functions, and many
> recent additions to the stdlib are not used by the compiler.
> 
> Another common and wrong idea is that core OCaml maintainers don't
> really care about the standard library.  This is not true, and won't
> be unless one of the "alternative standard" libraries really gains
> enough "market share" in the community.
> 
> So: please contribute!
>...

Why should we contribute when contibutions are just left to bitrot?

Like: http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=4909 which has had a
patch for 6 1/2 year that's just left rotting.

MfG
	Goswin