Homepage of the %%FreeBSD%% Erlang Team for Erlang, Elixir, rebar, relx, and related stuff.

===== Team =====

  * DaveCottlehuber (dch@)
  * BabakFarrokhi (farrokhi@)
  * JimmyOlgeni (olgeni@)
  * %%JeanS%%ébastienPédron (dumbbell@)
  * KenjiRikitake
  * AshishShukla (ashish@)
  * You are welcome to join :)

===== Contact =====

==== Mailing List ====

  * [[https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-erlang|freebsd-erlang mailing list]]

==== IRC ====

  * #freebsd-erlang IRC channel (ircs:%%//%%irc.libera.chat/#freebsd-erlang) is available on the [[IRC/Channels#libera|Libera Chat IRC Network]].

===== Roadmap =====

  * Remove deprecated runtimes in 2021Q4
  * Remove ports directly dependent on erlang- and elixir- languages
  * Update %%RabbitMQ%% to the next major release, which requires OTP23 minimum, and introduces support for the JIT
  * Bump the main ''%%lang/erlang%%'' runtime to OTP24 because JIT is awesome
  * Deprecate library ports
  * Generalize the dependency loading mechanism of devel/rebar3 (or even better databases/leofs) and make it available to all ports.

==== Ports ====

  * New port: [[https://dalmatiner.io/|DalmatinerDB]] (started [[https://gist.github.com/fbettag/260e5dd723ea942057c26c47c5dae641|here]])
  * New port: [[https://barrel-db.org/|BarrelDB]]
  * New port: [[https://vernemq.com/|VerneMQ]]
  * Make a separate erlang-epmd port + rc.d daemon to allow ports to rely on a parent epmd daemon starting with reduced privileges [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213001|PR213001]]

==== Done ====

  * Add !OTP24
  * Security fixes for rebar 
  * Add new language runtime for gleam
  * More than 40 point release updates in the last quarter alone for the Erlang runtimes
  * Make Erlang ports buildable from %%GitHub%% sources (remove patching and prebuilt tarballs)
  * Check and commit databases/couchdb2 port [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218844|PR 218844]]
  * Make lang/erlang-doc buildable from %%GitHub%% sources (was merged into lang/erlang as it requires a full source build anyway)
  * Merge [[https://github.com/erlang/corba|Erlang Corba]] tools into Erlang 21 and 22, as an option.
  * Install %%RabbitMQ%% code in a separate directory, like %%CouchDB%% does.
  * Rebar3 insisted on downloading a package index even if all dependencies were already provided. [done, see commit 424103f]

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