On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nut...@sun.com> wrote: > 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).
This has been on kenai for a while now with the repo now on github. > 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 GoldSpike: largely superceded by Warbler, but if someone wants to own it and 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? part of the project so yeah. > image_voodoo: This is the image_science look-alike Tom Enebo created. Great > project, great example of using Java libs. This has been moved to Kenai already. > jmx: Another Tom Enebo project, this is a nice wrapper/DSL for JMX. Nicest > one I know of. It is weird. This has not been moved there yet. I think I dreamed it. > 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. This has been on Kenai for a while. Serabe has already chimed in... > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > -- Blog: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ThomasEEnebo Email: en...@acm.org , tom.en...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
