Here I am just jealous that Lean isn’t limited to ASCII in its source code (Unicode 1.0.0 was 1991) 
I’m grateful that OCaml source code isn’t filled with smileys, letter look-alikes or other funny characters. It’s a feature.
Then, I have to named variables/functions in English… in French, valide and validé mean different things (valid/validated).
It pains me to read this. I don’t want this to be true, but this is also a perception of OCaml development that is not uncommon, several people have made similar remarks before so you are certainly onto something. One thing that is disheartening is that you are not representative of a complete newcomer in the community, for example you were invited to chair the OCaml Workshop this year, which is a clear form of recognition. If someone in your position feels unable to approach maintainers to offer contributions, what of newcomers?
I’m happy to keep working on improving this within the limits of time available. Your post motivated me to restart the compiler-newsletter which may be a way to share knowledge of what is going on. We could give office hours a shot (I should probably wait until @octachron is back from holidays) for a few weeks; @Gopiandcode and @giltho, when do you think would be a good time for office hours? Do you have other suggestions to make it easier to contribute?
We also have github/ocaml triaging meetings every two weeks that are open to anyone, see this document for relevant information. (Participating to these meetings has a risk of you ending up with issues or PRs assigned.)
I wrote [PR#14048](manual: document modular explicits by gasche · Pull Request #14048 · ocaml/ocaml · GitHub) to document modular explicits. Anyone could have done it – it requires understanding the design (and my understanding evolved from public discussions on the PR as I missed various things of course), and then some technical writing.
We’re in this weird situation where maintainers do a lot of stuff that is time-consuming because no one else does it, and then other people find that they don’t know what to do.
Whoa! Completely missed this recent release note. Very nice to see for my immediate use case & for OCaml users of some non-Anglophonic backgrounds, but “modest” is still limited to Latin scripts (as well as bicamerality). I guess I’ll have to keep my fingers crossed to for future ability to use a Unicode infix operator too…
Hi @gasche
I am on this link, PRs and issues worth looking at (2024) - HackMD it says the next meeting is OCT 15th 3pm CEST.
Wanted to know if it is still active.
Yes, the next meeting is planned on October 15th. This is only a triaging meeting though, discussing who to assign on various compiler PRs and issues. If you want more open-ended discussions with community members, the office hours may be more interesting.
Thank you for the response.
I would try and attend.
Cheers.
Hey @gasche
I attending the triage. It was exciting. I was utterly confused.
It’s just a time thing.
Thanks for sharing the resource.
Here is an image of the session.
