From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD9D87FE36 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:08:09 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-PHdr: 9a23:+MmAvhcuFnDBkIBMQofluQ10lGMj4u6mDksu8pMizoh2WeGdxc65Yh7h7PlgxGXEQZ/co6odzbGH6+a5BidbuN6oizMrSNR0TRgLiMEbzUQLIfWuLgnFFsPsdDEwB89YVVVorDmROElRH9viNRWJ+iXhpQAbFhi3DwdpPOO9QteU1JXvkbntsMaKKyxzxxOFKYtoKxu3qQiD/uI3uqBFbpgL9x3Sv3FTcP5Xz247bXianhL7+9vitMU7q3cY6Lod8JtLWKD+OqA5VqBwDTI8Mmlz6te4mwPESF6g4WADU2NejB1OSyLf4R33RJP2rWOuue1mxyiceNOzR5grVD7k46o9G0ygszsOKzNsqDKfscd3lq8O+B8= Authentication-Results: mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; spf=None smtp.pra=goswin-v-b@web.de; spf=Pass smtp.mailfrom=goswin-v-b@web.de; spf=None smtp.helo=postmaster@mout.web.de Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of goswin-v-b@web.de) identity=pra; client-ip=212.227.17.11; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="goswin-v-b@web.de"; x-sender="goswin-v-b@web.de"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: domain of goswin-v-b@web.de designates 212.227.17.11 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=212.227.17.11; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="goswin-v-b@web.de"; x-sender="goswin-v-b@web.de"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@mout.web.de) identity=helo; client-ip=212.227.17.11; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="goswin-v-b@web.de"; x-sender="postmaster@mout.web.de"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0CUAQB6/HRXhwsR49RAGoQUfQGmQYpriBWBfCKFdQKBOToSAQEBAQEBAQERAQEBCA0JCSEvgjKCGwEBBDpPCxgJJQ8FKDSIFQEaBAotvU0fhFQBAQgCASSKdYQwXIJggi8FmQuGCIYxgX6CQocFCoVjhymIXCUGgkKBWWwBiUcBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0CUAQB6/HRXhwsR49RAGoQUfQGmQYpriBWBfCKFdQKBOToSAQEBAQEBAQERAQEBCA0JCSEvgjKCGwEBBDpPCxgJJQ8FKDSIFQEaBAotvU0fhFQBAQgCASSKdYQwXIJggi8FmQuGCIYxgX6CQocFCoVjhymIXCUGgkKBWWwBiUcBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.26,551,1459807200"; d="scan'208";a="183310044" Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.11]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 30 Jun 2016 13:08:08 +0200 Received: from frosties.localnet ([134.3.242.84]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M3Bdr-1bZgu046WF-00st9n for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:08:08 +0200 Received: from mrvn by frosties.localnet with local (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1bIZpH-0004fb-6J for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:08:07 +0200 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:08:07 +0200 From: Goswin von Brederlow To: caml-list@inria.fr Message-ID: <20160630110806.GB16808@frosties> References: <5E818FB5-6908-4E29-838E-C6A2836F60CE@inria.fr> <20160627090929.GB24144@frosties> <1467026350.6080.9.camel@e130.lan.sumadev.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:cWD8P2eC5Nz5AY9ib+GxFqW4OErBTJLLEObYvNU0whe4Hjz5jsm 977c3g2omzo5ifuwkbvycdjaV86+OJwmEbEUCfuiYDqqtPFD0nht3aP0gwyUBnhoKRayik1 3pKXFNls0oXuTSTMK6Q8dYxg1nZyaXNwM5G5SIdKLWSgyHyWUE32vLpkQxas1KJWeM5Uo2M jmF+QTSd9VfTcxsWgAypw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:YPVt1l1H1zA=:CB5CxWRarFbHSI9IJ99uqU nG6PFxUcuKysYphozEJBHGLr7FubQLcgvNegmXW/EDufmHxhaBkmpLhFPo82ebeQRMlJnq+pq YPrmFYGSm2lgUvOmyojtckdP3ZH+e/l0mL+cqr0Gt/I44JkTLJ6fCitrI43JPpzna4GTT+N9G O51cYO9khxhXHQvFhN8UCZYLjT7t0T1AFTtlO+ts8O3Z7XyrDZDJeqknV4w50g8JZXvzL8FGJ sQqRU2JA2L5uBs08RFMWKbK/3tFtB1AowE7sE1QoYm7/6D6T6kvs+8kfM6Jv5/9sycqvYfeBr 19ln+ZIIo4PwFRxA0Dbv5ix9nqC3bJBkvDlR2G30Gh0ykJma+sPEH92ixZlsdSb5Kp818/5W6 oAyXSugK/f0ilIeXqTCcKe0klVgXsJFdmzARC/nhXfgTDr9BjClq0l8zgyRlM8AWttW0P7h7X ThZ3hkafocj6o6KIGvWIlL/5YVqCH0nl2srcCRmZtVRipltoqtlDt0dBxSlOQE4q1ibNPFLK2 f4nVh4ZIOYUkLne/3PqKANiIlpChvgwDvdxpD3R9VlSbAjK6zVB0rsnTZMaqZ0GUTux3TTabj Io/nJo8NWRtpo/3JsNjFMsP5y+nm0m+gkShZHhV6B6N0fb0RDnshk4LnR5C2pvZAKWDI9a0nE QT3F0oGFq7Q6X9NEFy9FVq6LOF6xTOIR7FjGuC3agAp4Cg4rsjb5wAHALfbpeG2BOCnd8km3j sFPX0NubsDR8Kmu+KvuN/J1GNnROTV3gaDLxgIVJ4+79S89YHwJkdKUVe68= Subject: Re: [Caml-list] About contributions to the Standard Library On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 09:21:11AM -0400, Gabriel Scherer wrote: > Well there are more tickets on the bugtracker (and github PRs) than human > time to review and make decisions on all of them. I'm very sorry if some > contributions are left to bitrot. Anyone can help by reviewing and giving > informed opinions on suggestions, and it's most helpful if contributors are > ready to ping from time to time to ask for an opinion on their contribution. > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Gerd Stolpmann > wrote: > > > Am Montag, den 27.06.2016, 11:09 +0200 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > > > 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. > > > > I guess you hit one of the pain points of the current library design, > > namely the various integer types (and the issue of combinatorial > > increase of possible variants). In my most recent code (a data science > > lib) I solved that radically - no support for 32 bit architectures > > anymore. The truth is that with current OCaml you cannot support both 32 > > bit and 64 bit equally well. Either you get a performance loss from > > boxed ints, or you get macros in central places of your code. > > > > Of course, that's no excuse for not responding at all. > > > > Gerd But then you should ask for more workers, not for more work. If you already can't keep up with the existing rate of contributions then more contributions will only mean more are left to bitrot. Worse, it means less contribution do get added because you spend more time just checking new contributions and deciding to not handle them right now. But anyway, consider this a ping for my patch. Hopefully it will be looked at again now. MfG Goswin