Re: [Caml-list] Jbuilder design and hacking session on September 9th in Oxford, UK

[Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>]

Dear all,

We updated the webpage with location information for the event:

  http://gallium.inria.fr/~scherer/tmp/jbuilder-design-session-sep-09-2017.html

The event will be held between 9am and 5pm at:

  Malmaison Oxford
  Oxford Castle
  3 New Rd
  Oxford OX1 1AY


On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Gabriel Scherer
<gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Jérémie Dimino, Mark Shinwell and myself are organizing a "jbuilder
> design and hacking session" during the day of September 9th
> in Oxford, UK -- the day after the OCaml Workshop on September 8th.
>
> Jbuilder is a promising new build system that has already been adopted
> by some OCaml projects and attracted external contributors. Now may be
> a good time to discuss short- and medium-term design plans for the
> tool to guide potential contributors and avoid growing pains in the
> future -- helping it serve the needs of as wide a part of the OCaml
> ecosystem as reasonable.
>
> In the morning we plan to have high-level discussions on the current
> design and what evolutions are important. Ideas coming from other
> OCaml tools, or developments benefitting jbuilder and some other
> tools, may also be discussed. The afternoon would be more of a hacking
> session, along with low-level discussions on the jbuilder codebase
> structure and indications for specific new features.
>
> An unfortunate aspect of design discussions is that larger attendance
> does not always improve their quality. While the event is open to all,
> we would like to ask you to be considerate in deciding to attend in
> the morning -- in particular, existing experience with an OCaml build
> tool or a ecosystem-wide tool that interacts with build systems
> (such as merlin, oasis, odig, topkg...) is preferred. We will do our
> best to take notes of the discussion and publish a summary or minutes,
> so that any idea or result is open to everyone.
> Feel free to come for the hacking in the afternoon.
>
> Further location information will be anounced later on the following webpage:
>
>   http://gallium.inria.fr/~scherer/tmp/jbuilder-design-session-sep-09-2017.html
>
> Cheers