About This Site

Aims

OCaml.org is a community driven website, created by and for OCaml developers and those interested in the language. The overall goals of the website are:

To be the public face of the OCaml language
To be a useful resource to current OCaml users
To be a place that those current users can point others to for info/updates
To be useful for the wider group of casual visitors, new users and the programming community.

The reasoning for the above is as follows. The core group (current users) must find utility from the site or there's less drive for them to visit or contribute. When those users get something useful from the site, then they're more likely to remember to point others to it. Once the first two groups are catered for then the site starts becoming useful to the wider crowd of people who are generally interested and find their way to the site themselves.

Governance of this website

A small team of individuals volunteer their time to manage and develop the site. These volunteers maintain an overview of the site and ensure that the above aims are being met, while providing a consistent experience for all visitors. Among other things, their responsibilities cover the content, presentation, usability, infrastructure and tooling for the site. At the time of writing, the 'www.ocaml.org' team consists of:

People may be added or removed from this group by consensus decision and membership is primarily based on contributions to the site or the infrastructure behind it. As the site and community grows, a more formal governance structure may be required and any changes or discussions regarding this will take place on the infrastructure mailing list, with relevant notifications to the main caml-list.

Governance of the OCaml.org domain

The public facing website is just one of the Projects associated with the OCaml.org domain name. The domain name has it's own governing document, which you should refer to for how sub-domains are handled.

How to Contribute

OCaml.org is currently managed through GitHub and the infrastructure mailing list. To submit content to the site, please fork the site and use GitHub's pull request mechanism to submit content. It will be reviewed by one of the ocaml.org team members and merged. We aim for merged content to be live within a few minutes.

Contribution Guidelines

Please fork the repo and use the Pull Request system to submit changes. To add or modify content, you can also click the pen in the top right corner which will take you to the corresponding GitHub page. There you can edit it and perform a pull request (GitHub will take care of doing the fork for you).
Please don't add large files, you should put them elsewhere and link to them. It is possible to host some files in the separate ocaml.org-media repo.
Please be aware that Pull Requests are prioritised over issues.
Please be aware that content submitted will be licensed as stated in the license file.
If you are submitting substantial changes please do try building them locally first (run make).
If you're not sure how to get involved, help us with open issues!
Please remember that the site is managed by volunteers!

As the list of contributors is automatically generated from the Git logs, make sure you commit with your real first and last names (set up your identity in Git before committing).

Conflict Resolution

In most cases, content and fixes can simply be merged. On the rare occasions, where there may be disagreement, we will do the following:

The specific issue(s) will need to be articulated so it is clear what needs to be discussed.
Other members of the ocaml.org team will be asked to join the discussion on the pull request.
If the discussion cannot be resolved quickly, then the pull request should be closed and the discussion point raised on the infrastructure mailing list, where other members can also offer their viewpoint.

In general, we expect to generate consensus among the community to resolve any conflicts.

Logos

OCaml logos are available for your use here. You are encouraged to use them in your own projects and websites to promote and show your support for OCaml.