Dear Community,
On behalf of the OCaml developer team, I am happy to announce the formation of a “Standard Library Team” which will take the lead in shepherding, reviewing and generally staying on top of standard library contributions in the service of the community. Its members (and GitHub handles) are:
- Kate Deplaix @kit-ty-kate
- Simon Cruanes @c-cube
- Daniel Bünzli @dbuenzli
- Léo Andrès @redianthus (previously @zapashcanon)
- Nicolas Ojeda Bar @nojb (myself, acting as relay with the core dev team)
All of them are experienced users who have made great contributions to the standard library, and the community in general, over the years. Making them part of this team is a way of recognizing a role they already play in many ways. Besides crediting their valuable work, I hope this will encourage them to take even greater responsibility in the evolution of the standard library.
We hope that by putting this team together, we will be able to improve the way standard library contributions are handled: making sure that contributions are acted on in a timely fashion, that decisions are taken (instead of sometimes letting contributions languish without a clear decision), and that a coherent set of criteria and direction is applied to decide what gets integrated into the standard library.
Very much related to this, a document with design guidelines for standard library contributions is being proposed for integration in the compiler repository. This document, which is general in character, is meant to guide the work of this team. Everyone is welcome to peruse it.
Do not hesitate to get back to me or to any other member of the team if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Nicolas
