I think we should look at migrating all remaining RubyForge
"JRuby-extras" projects to Kenai. It's got a much better bug tracker,
separate email lists (or forums for lighter-weight Q/A), and I believe
it will soon have git support. Being able to track bugs independently
would be worth it in itself, rather than tracking them in JRuby's tracker.
Any objections?
We also need some new owners for projects in there. Here's a complete
list of projects currently available. If you're interested in taking
over (where needed) or contributing (always needed :)) reply to this thread.
Lots of fun toys in here almost nobody knows about :)
AR-JDBC: largely has been moved off to github and taken over by Nick
Sieger (and lately Tom Enebo helping out more too).
antbuilder: It would be nice to formally make this project go, at least
make it comparable to some "ant builders" like in Groovy.
JRubySwingConsole: I think this was an attempt to make a better GUI
console for JRuby, but I don't remember who did it.
GoldSpike: largely superceded by Warbler, but if someone wants to own it
and keep working on it, be my guest.
javasand: This is Ola's implementation of _why's sandbox stuff. It
hasn't been maintained or updated in a long time, but I just committed a
patch. Anyone interested in sandboxing and/or using this?
JParseTree: I'd love to see this updated and made to work 100%. Werner
had been working on it, but I think he's lost interest. And there's some
work to do, but we're willing to modify JRuby core to support this if
someone wanted to take it over. Having a fully-functional ParseTree impl
could open up a whole class of gems.
JRuby-OpenSSL: This is largely still Ola Bini's domain, but he's been
busy with other things. We'd love someone to take it over, especially if
you know crypto stuff *at all* (most of us do not).
Antwrap: This, like antbuilder, would be really great to formalize since
it could make Rake a real alternative to Ant by wrapping Ant tasks.
Hell, if someone could get this working really well, we might finally be
able to move to a fully Rake-based build. That would be sweet.
Stemmer4j: This is an extension for JRuby to use the "Hitta" full-text
search plugin for Rails. I don't know anything more about it than that.
Mongrel-support: I think this is the native bits that have been
contributed to Mongrel proper, yeah?
Mongrel-JCluster: This is Ola's all-in-one-JVM Mongrel clustering setup.
It may be irrelevant now with threadsafe Rails, but we still get people
interested in this deployment model.
JRuby/LDAP: An LDAP wrapper I presume :) Nobody maintaining it, might be
a nice project to formalize.
activerecord-*-adapter and jdbc-*: These all fall under AR-JDBC...have
they been migrated off to github too?
image_voodoo: This is the image_science look-alike Tom Enebo created.
Great project, great example of using Java libs.
jmx: Another Tom Enebo project, this is a nice wrapper/DSL for JMX.
Nicest one I know of.
rmagick4j: This was our big GSoC project, and Sergio (is that right) was
able to get a *ton* of stuff working. Gruff Graphs, which uses a lot of
RMagick, passes all tests when running on RMagick4j. I'm not sure what's
left to do, but it would be a great contribution to the community. And I
know if nothing else, working on performance would be a big help.
rcov-java: This is what you'd expect, rcov for JRuby. I think it's
working but probably could use some cleanup and certainly could use more
testing. We should get a nightly build run set up to ensure we don't
break it. And we could look at improving performance too.
jruby: This was my first attempt at making a JRuby gem...that is a gem
you can install in MRI that gives you a JRuby command and JRuby working
environment. I think it could provide an easy migration path for a lot
of people. If you want to help, let me know.
dbd-jdbc: Chad Johnson has volunteered to take this over. It's a DBI
layer on top of JDBC, right Chad?
java_inline: This is a plugin for ruby_inline that allows you to define
Java code and call it, just like ruby_inline does for C. I wrote it,
haven't done much with it in a while. It's pretty easy code, and if
someone likes the idea I'd love some help.
- Charlie
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