OCaml Language Committee: an update on a policy for conflicts of interest

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When discussing the proposition for include functors, the language committee felt in the rabbit hole of discussing conflict of interests.

After some discussions, as the current committee chair, I have decided to propose to amend the committee description with our current understanding of transparency-based policy for conflicts of interest at OCaml Language Committee: conflicts of interest by Octachron · Pull Request #55 · ocaml/RFCs · GitHub .

The core idea behind that policy is that in a small-world community like ours, trying to completely avoid conflicts would be counter-productive. At the same time, making sure that anyone is aware of potential conflicts is fairer for all participants.

Thus the current proposal, which is not definitive. In particular, if we have any comments, you are more than welcome to participate in the discussion in the RFC above.

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When discussing the proposition for include functors, the language committee felt in the rabbit hole of discussing conflict of interests.

Can you expand on this? People were trying to advance the agenda of their employers or something else?

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From my perspective this is mostly a discussion about anticipating future problems by explicitly writing down good etiquette from the start. But the archive of the committee discussions are public if you want to make your own opinion.

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