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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)

Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:03:30PM +0100, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
>>  when discussion programming language matters, there is usually an
>> extraordinary amount of bike-shedding
> <snip>
>> I would love, for example, a kind of read-only mode where we hear
>> about the discussion, without adding noise to it
>
> Well, *if* this is the problem, then the solutions to it are well known
> and adopted by other communities that maintain programming languages:
> just add a "core-dev" mailing list, where only list members could post,
> and someone who moderates subscription requests. Such a think will also
> help defining who the core team are and give some sort of public reward
> to who makes into it.  Given that (as discussed in this threader) there
> already OCaml committers who are not affiliated to INRIA, that would
> also dispel the feeling that OCaml is an INRIA pet.
>
> ( Now probably Benedikt will probably want to kill both me and Gabriel
>   for thread hijack, *again* :-))

Or just have someone post minutes of such discussions. A short summary
of what was discussed and what is planed as a result. We don't need to
see all the fighting and back and forth. The conclusion is usualy
enough.

MfG
        Goswin