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Exercism exercises in OCaml.
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Recruiting additional maintainers for OCaml #374

Closed kytrinyx closed 3 years ago

kytrinyx commented 4 years ago

We're about to start a big push towards version 3 (v3) of Exercism. This is going to be a really exciting step forward for Exercism, with in-browser coding, new Concept Exercises with automated feedback, improved mentoring and much more.

This to be a big community effort, with the work spread out among hundreds of volunteers across Exercism. One key thing is going to be each track having enough maintainers who have the time to manage that community effort. We are therefore putting out a call for new maintainers to bolster our numbers. We're hoping that our existing maintainers will be able to act as mentors to the newer maintainers we add, and take on a parental role in the tracks.

If you are an existing maintainer, could you please reply to this letting us know that you think you'll have time (2-3hrs/week) to help with this over the next 6 months. If you won't have that time, but still want to be a maintainer and just help where you can instead, please tell us that too. If you have come to the end of the road as a maintainer, then we totally understand that and appreciate all your effort, so just let us know.

For anyone new who's interested in becoming a maintainer, thanks for your interest! Being an Exercism maintainer is also a great opportunity to work with some other smart people, learn more about your language of choice, and gain useful skills and experience that are useful for growing your career in the technical leadership direction. Please write a comment below introducing yourself along with your Exercism handle, and telling us why you're interested in becoming a maintainer, and any relevant experience. We will then evaluate every application and contact you using your exercism email address once we have finished the evaluation process.

Thank you!

See also https://github.com/exercism/exercism/issues/5161

sshine commented 4 years ago

Existing (passive) maintainer, will not lead development of exercises, but will review PRs if necessary.

marionebl commented 4 years ago

👋 Existing maintainer here! I can do 1hr a week in my current situation. Might be able to arrange for something with my employer to scale this up.

sshine commented 4 years ago

Having 1 hour a week from you would be excellent, @marionebl!

Since a new volunteer emerged in exercism/sml#125, I aired my old idea of syncing the ML tracks.

That is, use the same skeleton across all three language tracks and deviate when we care.

tjade273 commented 3 years ago

Hi, I'm interested in helping to maintain the OCaml track. My Exorcism handle is tjade273.

I was a TA for three semesters for Cornell's CS 3110, an introduction to functional programming and data structures in OCaml. This included holding weekly discussion sections for the course, grading assignments and exams and writing problems for the exams.

I can contribute 3 or so hours a week to building out exercises and infrastructure, plus a couple hours of mentoring.

Looking forward to helping out!

iHiD commented 3 years ago

Hi @tjade273. Thanks! Would you mind emailing erik@exercism.io please, and @ErikSchierboom will get you set up :)

ErikSchierboom commented 3 years ago

We're closing this issue as it was part of our push to implement the v3 version of this track and v3 has just been released.

New maintainer are always welcome though!