The opam-repository needs your help! 
tl;dr: Want to grow your OCaml connections and expertise while supporting a pillar of the ecosystem? Then join us as an opam-repository maintainer by commenting on the issue Volunteer to Maintain the opam Repository 
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The opam-repository is the official store of package descriptions for the extended OCaml ecosystem. It serves more than 4400 packages thru the opam package manager and index, and it is approaching 200 new packages and releases per month. The opam system is unique among widely used programming language packaging systems in offering the following:
- It supports system dependencies to abstract over the packaging complexities of most commonly used platforms.
- It is tested by an extensive CI matrix to ensure packages are working, installable, and interoperable.
- It is curated to cultivate an ecosystem of high quality, useful packages.
This all takes a lot of work and it presents a wide field of interesting socio-technical problems and exciting opportunities.
Here are two of the projects we’ve tackled recently:
- Organizing and executing the archiving initiative, led by @hannes, and presented in “Pushing the opam-repository into a sustainable repository”
- Work to Improve the CI systems and maintain the infrastructure
The opam-repository maintainers needs the help of curious and motivated volunteers, like you!
Opportunities
This is a great opportunity for newer and seasoned members of the OCaml community to serve a critical function and make a big impact on the sustainability and health of our growing ecosystem:
- Connect with and support contributors from across the ecosystem.
- Contribute to a large, long-running open source project.
- Learn from an experienced group of caring and committed maintainers.
- Learn advanced techniques in packaging management, in a variety of build systems, and in every niche of the extended OCaml ecosystem.
- Help to evolve the tooling, infrastructure, and processes that enable our distributed community to share programs!
Next steps
- Ask any questions in this thread, or by contacting one of the [active maintainers] directly.
- Volunteer by commenting on the issue Volunteer to Maintain the opam Repository .
- We will arrange for an orientation session for all interested maintainers!
We look forward to working with you!
– The Opam Repository Maintainers