From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92EA3BB84 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:22:52 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArgDAPqz3UhDz4HeiGdsb2JhbACTLwEBARUipXSBZw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,320,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="15411111" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2008 13:22:52 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m8RBMqVb013032 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:22:52 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArgDAPqz3UhDz4HeiGdsb2JhbACTLwEBARUipXSBZw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,320,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="15411110" Received: from fettunta.fettunta.org ([67.207.129.222]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2008 13:22:51 +0200 Received: from aquarium.takhisis.invalid (unknown [10.17.0.18]) by fettunta.fettunta.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0334E180AD for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by aquarium.takhisis.invalid (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7F9306306; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:21:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:21:50 +0200 From: Stefano Zacchiroli To: Caml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml support on Ubuntu Message-ID: <20080927112150.GB15600@usha.takhisis.invalid> Mail-Followup-To: Caml References: <87ljxdrki6.fsf_-_@pat35-1-82-229-60-210.fbx.proxad.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ljxdrki6.fsf_-_@pat35-1-82-229-60-210.fbx.proxad.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 48DE178C.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; zacchiroli:01 zack:01 ocaml:01 0200,:01 debian's:01 ocaml:01 toolchain:01 afaik:01 zacchiroli:01 postdoc:01 zack:01 ubuntu:98 ubuntu:98 domination:98 wrote:01 On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:44:17AM +0200, David MENTRE wrote: > To fix this situation, one only needs people on the Ubuntu side to > synchronize packets from Debian at the right time. This is enough only if you assume that Ubuntu people just want to "inherit" the Debian work. Sure this will be an improvement over the current situation, but I frankly want more. > As I have an direct interest in this story and while I have no knowledge > at all regarding Ubuntu workflow, I'll try to see what can be done. The needed steps IMO are: 0) identify who among the Ubuntu developers (core developers or MOTU, I don't care) is willing to maintain OCaml-related stuff 1) decide upon a collaboration infrastructure and use it for *both* Debian and Ubuntu My proposal on this is of course to reuse Debian's, as we already have a version control system and a mailing list, and we have already reached a critical mass. By experience, other mixed Debian/Ubuntu maintenance teams are using the Debian infrastructure and is working quite well for all of the involved people 2) coordinate releases, so that the OCaml toolchain is in shape when either of the distribution makes a release 3) total world domination AFAIK we are still missing step 0. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time