dev meeting 20231025

Present: @alizter @emillon @Leonidas-from-XIV @rgrinberg @rikusilvola

• opam synopsis

  • we agree about the non-synopsis changes in that PR
  • 1 terms is causing issues:
    • "opinionated" sort of implies that "the dune way" is incompatible with the rest of the ecosystem (misleading)
  • both the README and dune.build say "A composable build system for OCaml"
    • we note that "composable" is not a beginner feature and needs to be define
    • "for OCaml" shadows the fact that Dune can also build C, C++, and Coq.
  • short term solution: we reuse the tagline from the readme and the website
  • later we can have a discussion about changing it to something more precise

• 3.12 release

  • early to mid November?
  • one goal is to avoid the freeze in December, so if we want 2 releases in Q4 it's better to spread them out

• package management: what's missing to execute build plan?

  • building the compiler
  • some packages like zarith don't build