Hi, I'm the main developer of an open-source OCaml-based tool and I'm trying to get help to package it for Debian.
The tool is called Caper: https://gitlab.com/niksu/caper It is mainly of benefit to the networking community, especially tcpdump. Caper features on https://www.tcpdump.org/bpfexam/ -- that page invokes a recent build of Caper among other tools. Do you know of anybody in the OCaml+Debian community who could carry out, lead, or help with packaging? Even if they can only help with 20% of the effort, having their experience and guidance might lighten the load enough to enable me and/or students to carry out the packaging. By packaging it for Debian, the tool would be made available to more users who can benefit from it. I looked into packaging Caper for Debian but I haven't had enough time to work through the detailed process -- though I do appreciate the wealth of documentation that the Debian project makes available for this. Caper's developed alongside university research, and since I lack the time to package it myself, I also considered finding students with the right level of experience and detail-orientation who might be able to help with this, but I haven't succeeded in this either. Regarding the tool, I've been developing it for a few years. Here is a summary: - the tool is distributed under GPLv3 - the environment-building and dependency-gathering is automated through a Dockerfile and Vagrantfile, both in the repo. The compilation is automated. - it has benefited from contributions from members of the tcpdump community, in the form of patches and of bug reports, as well as students. I review all contributions, particularly from students, to check quality. - it has a regression suite which is heavily used during development, to ensure good quality behaviour by the tool. - it's actively developed. Thank you Nik Sultana -- http://www.cs.iit.edu/~nsultana1
