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

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

[Gabriel Scherer]

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

Re: [Caml-list] Jbuilder design and hacking session

[SF Markus Elfring]

> 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.

How do you think about to reconsider the branding of this evolving software?
Would you like to avoid a name clash with a development environment?
https://github.com/janestreet/jbuilder/issues/188

Regards,
Markus

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

[Gabriel Scherer]

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