Hello all,
- Since a few weeks now, the OCamlCore Team is setting up a forge for the
- OCaml community. A forge is a set of services for software projects,
- including version control systems (CVS, SVN, ...), mailing lists, download
- areas, bug tracking systems, ... Well known examples are sourceforge.net,
- GNA, and Savannah. The forge for the OCaml community will be specifically
- aimed at hosting software projects related to the OCaml programming
- language.
-
- The forge is in good shape and is almost ready for the release. Before doing
- so however we have just entered a beta-testing phase, that can help us to
- check that everything works well before an official release.
-
- We are therefore looking for people which:
+ During the last three weeks, the OCamlCore.org Team has been working to
+ set up various software services for the OCaml community. Following the
+ previous announcement [1] of the availability of an OCaml planet (i.e.
+ an aggregation of blogs discussing OCaml-related topics), we are now
+ almost ready to announce an OCaml forge.
+
+ A forge is a set of services for software projects, including version
+ control systems (CVS, SVN, ...), mailing lists, download areas, bug
+ tracking systems, ... Well known examples are sourceforge.net, GNA, and
+ Savannah. The forge for the OCaml community will be specifically aimed
+ at hosting software projects related to the OCaml programming language.
+
+ The new site is almost ready for the release. However, before open it to
+ everybody, we would like to gather a group of people from the community
+ to beta-test the site.
+
+ In particular, we are therefore looking for people which:
* have a small experience with other forge
* have an OCaml project to start (or to migrate from somewhere else)
- * are willing to collaborate with us to find out problems in the forge setup
+ * are willing to collaborate with us to find out problems in the forge
+ setup
- Of course being a beta testing phase we are not yet willing to give
+ Of course, this being a test period, we are not yet willing to give
guarantees of any kind, but we do have backups :-)
So if you want to participate to the beta test of forge.ocamlcore.org,
sign-up for an account on <http://forge.ocamlcore.org>.
Then submit a project, stating into "Objectifs et description du projet"
- that "Project will belong to the beta test of forge.ocamlcore.org". This is
- for records and help us to be sure that project submitter is aware of the
- "beta" status of the forge. For the moment we are *not* going to accept
- projects which do not explicitly acknowledge the beta testing status of the
- forge.
+ that "Project will belong to the beta test of forge.ocamlcore.org". This
+ is for records and help us to be sure that project submitter is aware of
+ the "beta" status of the forge. For the moment we are *not* going to
+ accept projects which do not explicitly acknowledge the beta testing
+ status of the forge.
Regards,
- the OCamlCore.org team.
+ the OCamlCore.org Team.
(Sylvain Le Gall, Romain Beauxis, Stefano Zacchiroli, Pietro Abate)
+
+ [1] http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/msg/6faedd72f77fd0df