Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork

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

oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
>
> during the last years, more than one person mourned about
> this or that dark sides of OCaml.
>
> Even some of the mourning and the proposals had mentioned good ideas and had
> positive motivation, after a while it became clear, that the same people with
> the one or the other good idea, failed badly in other areas. Good, that they
> did not have had too much influence in the development of OCaml.
>
> Even in general I like the community/bazaar, I think in case of OCaml,
> there is a lot of high knowledge in the core team, which was criticized
> by others already, but in the long run, it turned out that the core team
> had their reasons for a lot of decisions, which were criticized.
> Ocaml of course will also have some history-related issues that might be
> changed, but maybe also a lot of decisions inside, which relies on theoretical
> reasoning.

That is no excuse for not reacting to bug or feature patches. If
there is a reason not to accept a patch then that can be communicated.

There is no excuse for silence.

MfG
        Goswin