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 AAA15108; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:15:35 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA15163 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:15:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from plover.csun.edu (plover.csun.edu [130.166.1.24]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2JNG2KW027121 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:16:03 +0100 Received: from puffin.csun.edu (puffin.csun.edu [130.166.1.21]) by plover.csun.edu (MOS 3.4.4-GR) with ESMTP id BBO36255; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:15:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [130.166.10.69] (s010n069.csun.edu [130.166.10.69]) by puffin.csun.edu (MOS 3.4.4-GR) with ESMTP id BNL43079 (AUTH eric); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:15:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <405B7569.9080404@socialtools.net> References: <1FBC9CE8-79D8-11D8-ACC9-000A95A1E69A@csun.edu> <405B7569.9080404@socialtools.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <4D60BD1C-79FB-11D8-ACC9-000A95A1E69A@csun.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ocaml From: Eric Stokes Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Structuring the Caml community (Re: OCaml's Cathedral & Bazaar) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:15:24 -0800 To: Benjamin Geer X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml's:01 perl's:01 unmaintained:01 bug:01 faq:01 faq:01 beginner's:01 beginners:01 bin:01 caml-bugs:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 caml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 251 And what makes all that you've said really bad is that www.ocaml.org is the first site I found. And I've found it referenced in lots of other places. I still claim that the current www.ocaml.org site HAS the right idea, and has a decent format. It isn't perfect, but what is. If some of the links to dead end projects were cleaned off it, and the news items were updated, it would be a very good site. On Mar 19, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Benjamin Geer wrote: > Eric Stokes wrote: >> (the index site, see #1) >> http://www.ocaml.org/ >> Actually is a very good index site, almost on par with perl's. Has >> all the relevant requirements, > > I think it's an embarrassment. It's an unmaintained site that hasn't > updated since 2002. It's actually worse than no site at all, because > it contains links to dead projects (e.g. the Caml Development Kit and > the OCaml IRC Server, which doesn't even exist anymore). As you point > out, the news items haven't been updated since 2002, which strongly > gives the impression that Caml is completely dead. Worst of all, it > uses the word 'hacker', which to most managers means 'criminal that > tries to attack my servers'. Whoever created this site would be doing > the Caml community a great service by taking it off the web. The > caml.inria.fr site is ugly, but at least it's correct and up to date. > > Ben > > ------------------- > 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 > ------------------- 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