On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 10:39:30AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > oliver <oli...@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. [...]
OK, I can agree here. More communication might be fine. I don't know how much the OCaml team is overwhelmed with work. And I don't know how much time it needs to give feedback; that also depends on the bugtracking tools. If the used tools are too uncnvenient, maybe they could be changed. But that also needs work. I remember that I once had a feature wish. As far as I remember, it was picked up, but also done silently... Last time when I was logged in at the OCaml bugtracker (long ago btw), there were a lot of issues... some bug-reports, some feature wishes. Don't remember if automatic messaging must be activated, but I don't remember that status change was reported to me. When I use launchpad for Ubuntu, then Messages will be delivered automatically to the reporter of a bug. Maybe the toolchain can be enhanced, so that no extra overhead for writing messages is necessary. Ciao, Oliver -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
