Those seem like appropriate categories, and I agree on the areas that
will get the most changes over the next few months.

- Charlie

On 2/7/06, Thomas E Enebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   We can provide some documentation at the end of the month under the
> benefits of writing slides for javaOne.  We also plan on changing how
> all classes are defined to the one magical final way.  That will not
> happen until probably after May and it is unlikely that documenting
> those parts of the internals will be worthwhile until then.
>
>   Perhaps we need to start making bugs in our bug database to account
> for high-level internal design changes.  It is a good idea and will keep
> us a little more honest.  We need to actually categorize our architecture
> (or at least in a direction we want the architecture to move in).  Off
> the top of my head:
>
> 1. AST/Parsing
> 2. Interpreter/Evaluation
> 3. Class definitions
> 4. Java integration
> 5. BSF
> 6. Main (command-line and initialization)
>
>   Charlie (anyone else?) have thoughts on high-level categories?
> I would say that 2 and 3 are likely to have heavy changes in the next
> year.  I am not expecting large changes in the other places unless someone
> has an epiphany.
>
>   So once we get the categories of the architecture defined we may make bugs
> directly or make subcategories and then make bugs.  Once we have bugs we
> can then use comments to reflect design directions and decisions.  What do
> people think?
>
> -Tom
>
> On Mon, 06 Feb 2006, Zane Rockenbaugh defenestrated me:
>
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> > I've done a bit of developer oriented technical writing in the past, so was 
> > planning on sitting down
> > one weekend and get up some basic documentation on how things work. I've 
> > been waiting for the
> > structural changes in the VM to fall out before beginning in earnest.
> >
> > What would be the best resource to guage what is stable and what is going 
> > to change? Is this
> > information reflected the bug/RFC database or summarized anywhere in 
> > particular? I've gleaned some
> > from emails and current website, but haven't sat down to disentangle the 
> > information from the
> > mailing list. Nor do I particularly want to take that route.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Zane
> >
> > Thomas E Enebo wrote:
> > > On Sat, 04 Feb 2006, Anders Bengtsson defenestrated me:
> > >>fre 2006-02-03 klockan 10:07 -0600 skrev Thomas E Enebo:
> > >>>  In order to make our project reflect reality a little more I have
> > >>>culled our developer list.  I removed developers who are no longer
> > >>>subscribed to jruby-devel.  If I did this in error, then let me know.
> > >>>However, if you want to be re-added you should realize that you will
> > >>>be expected to start actively developing...
> > >>Hey, I'm still on jruby-devel! Can't claim that I've committed anything
> > >>in the last year or two though, nor that I'll have the time to do it any
> > >>time soon. ;)
> > >
> > > Whoops.  Well let me know when you do have time and I will add you back.
> > > We decided to do this to try and give a more realistic list of how
> > > many people are actively developing.
> > >
> > > -Tom
> > >
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