[Unison-hackers] Unison on launchpad (was: [unison-users] Broken unicode handling in unison 2.27.57)

[Benjamin Pierce]

Let's keep in mind that this is not a question of re-hosting Unison  
itself -- it's just a short-term fork to do a particular piece of  
work...

Best,

     - Benjamin


On May 5, 2009, at 4:22 AM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 04-05-2009, Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Benjamin Pierce wrote:
>>> I'm willing to help with repository issues, but I'd prefer to wait a
>>> little till it's clear that this project is making progress before
>>> sinking a lot of time into setting things up.  Would it make sense  
>>> just=
>>
>>> to take a copy of the sources, put it somewhere convenient for
>>> collaboration among whoever is interested in this, let things run  
>>> for a=
>>
>>> little while, and then synchronize the two replicas and set up a  
>>> way of=
>>
>>> keeping them in sync?
>>
>> Russel Winder was so kind to create the unison group and project on
>> launchpad.net, and I've uploaded a bzr-svn import of the  
>> repository. I
>> think I'll keep that in sync manually for now, and when this works  
>> out
>> ask you to automate the synchronization.
>>
>> The project page:       https://launchpad.net/unison
>> The developer team:     https://launchpad.net/~unison
>> Available bzr branches: https://code.launchpad.net/unison
>
> It is probably a bit late to say that, but maybe a better hosting  
> for a
> pure OCaml project like Unison, would be http://forge.ocamlcore.org  
> (aka
> OCaml forge).
>
> We can provide darcs, git, svn or cvs hosting. We also have bzr,  
> though
> it is only used by one project.
>
> The point is that OCaml forge helps you to gather more people  
> related to
> OCaml than launchpad which is more general purpose. In other word, you
> get more visibility for people doing OCaml programming (which are hard
> to find).
>
> Regards,
> Sylvain Le Gall
>
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