Correct but this is purely for legacy reasons - all changes currently go through Microsoft's full intensive testing process/suite due to shipping with Visual St

Correct but this is purely for legacy reasons - all changes currently go through Microsoft's full intensive testing process/suite due to shipping with Visual Studio/F# being a product whereby you can involve the call centres/invoke enterprise incident resolution process etc. Don Syme did a presentation over at http://www.meetup.com/fsharpsydney/events/204864872/ http://www.meetup.com/fsharpsydney/events/204864872/ last week which went into this in detail. This will all be changing with migration of development to GitHub first, codeplex will disappear in time as the language further continues on the path of seperation from Microsft - http://fsharp.org/ http://fsharp.org/