State of the Eco-System

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Obsolete packages?

Looking through pkg.julialang.org I noticed quite a few packages that look to be obsolete (n years since being updated, all tests failing). I had a go at “adopting” one recently, and made a PR, but I suspect that the author has moved on to other things. Is there likely to be a clear out of obsolete packages some day? Perhaps some kind of “JuliaMorgue” org could be created where dead packages could be moved and preserved for posterity?

Lost in transition: the current state of the Julia ecosystem?

Similarly, Gumbo itself is at v0.3.0 on Julia v0.6, despite the fact that pkg.julialang.org lists Julia v0.5: 0.3.0 (7 months ago) / Tests pass. Julia v0.6: 0.4.0 (a month ago) / Tests pass. How can this be possible on a brand new Julia v0.6 install? julia> versioninfo() Julia Version 0.6.0 Commit 903644385b (2017-06-19 13:05 UTC) Platform Info: OS: macOS (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0) CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz WORD_SIZE: 64 BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_…