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/ocaml > >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outdated, lots of ocaml ports not being carefully maintained and updated.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 > >helpful to > >improve the situation, I would love to see people taking the task of > >cleaning up > >the situation, bringing up ocaml ports to newer version. > > > >Probably creating a ocaml@ team would be a good idea? > > Have these people been talking to the maintainers, or those > responsible for outstanding PRs?
I relayed the information in general to ports@ because ocaml-* concerns a lot of maintainer to contact individually, but I supposed most of 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
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