Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:26:33 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: bf1783@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ocaml ports needs love Message-ID: <20130227132633.GI16178@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <CAGFTUwMu9uEX9JxAqZTD7KUNAVqxXZUkjP1S6mn8HV6RVGh4UA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGFTUwMu9uEX9JxAqZTD7KUNAVqxXZUkjP1S6mn8HV6RVGh4UA@mail.gmail.com>
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--wjoFZxbW4tu+iR6v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:09:34PM +0000, b.f. wrote: > >I received a lot of complaint about ocaml being in a bad shape: lang/oca= ml being > >outdated, lots of ocaml ports not being carefully maintained and updated. > > > >I personnally know nothing about ocaml so I'm not able to actually be he= lpful to > >improve the situation, I would love to see people taking the task of cle= aning up > >the situation, bringing up ocaml ports to newer version. > > > >Probably creating a ocaml@ team would be a good idea? >=20 > Have these people been talking to the maintainers, or those > responsible for outstanding PRs?=20 I relayed the information in general to ports@ because ocaml-* concerns a lot of maintainer to contact individually, but I supposed most o= f the people sending mail to me about that haven't contacted the maintainers neither report any PR, but can't speak for all of them. > in the past several months. There were a few delays as maintainership > passed from stas to new volunteers, the pre-release freeze was > drawn-out, some upstream bugs were fixed, and while other changes > (like tcl/tk) were made. But I expect that the new ocaml will be done > soon (right after an update of lablgtk2) , and Michael Grunewald has > been active. An ocaml alias and mailing list might help at least for > the unmaintained ports, and as a place for discussions. That is nice to hear, thanks for your work and sorry for noise.o regards, Bapt --wjoFZxbW4tu+iR6v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlEuCYkACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EyRpQCfdRR/+D3GgcuhRwozr9HzPyXi So8An3Oq3rT2ArOkRtu1zeZadvZNx9Xm =A6WG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wjoFZxbW4tu+iR6v--
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