[opam-devel] more committers needed ?

[Thomas Gazagnaire]

> The OPAM tool indeed supports this model, but the automation infrastructure isn't fully written and deployed yet.  There are various tools in-flight that do portions of this, but none exist that poll the --dev repository (e.g. for a new GitHub release) and autocreate a PR.

yes, that's a very good idea! (and not difficult to do actually)

> I think that's an interesting idea, as instead of the repository maintainer pushing a release and OPAM package, we could take the burden off the creator and poll for releases on the upstream GitHub repositories instead.
> 
> One advantage of this "pull" model is that it ensures that the upstream `opam` metadata is sane, since that would form the basis for the PR. Right now they can diverge due to manual intervention.
> 
> Anil
> 
>> On 22 Feb 2016, at 22:14, Cheng Lou <chenglou92 at gmail.com <mailto:chenglou92 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry for hijacking the discussion. I'm new to OPAM, but is there a reason why PRs for package upgrades can't be managed automatically? E.g. asking for a git URL and either periodically check for new release tags, or check on the fly when installing a library.
>> 
>> On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 7:27:49 AM UTC-5, Fabrice Le Fessant wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>    If there is some need to help managing PRs to the opam-repository, Grégoire Henry (OCamlPro-Henry on Github) and myself (lefessan on Github) are volunteers to spend some time doing it.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> --Fabrice
>> 
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