You have no idea what this news means to me. It's like... IronRuby is really getting started...
More then willing to continue helping in any way I can. :) On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Jim Deville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The IronRuby project is a community project, and has contributors inside > and outside of Microsoft. We have integrated the work of several external > folks into the product (thanks!), and we are making rapid progress. > > > > We'd like to try to make things easier. We'd like to not be in the way of > community work on IronRuby; we'd like to give the community a little more > ownership over this project. Ideally, we would all work out of the same > repository, but this can't happen right now. However, we have some ideas to > make things easier. > > > > First, we're moving to Github. I'll be creating the Ironruby project on > Github at http://github.com/ironruby/ironruby. This will be the same user > on Github that we use for IronRuby-contribs, and our versions of RubySpec. > The biggest upside of this is that anyone can fork IronRuby and work on it, > and submit a pull request to get it integrated back into the main tree. > However, we don't want to be in the way of accepting patches. > > > > Next, we're going to institute a Linux-like system of Lieutenants. We're > looking for people who are passionate and knowledgeable about the IronRuby > project to take on this role. The goal of this system is to streamline the > process, and make it easier for our external contributors to get code into > IronRuby. We'd like to have Lieutenants who can take the patches and pull > requests, code review them, and then commit them to their trees. Then we can > pull these forks into our repository when we do pushes, and integrate it > into one repo. Our hope is that we can be viewed as just one node in the > tree, or ring. We shouldn't have to be the central repository; we're just > one of the repositories. > > > > Finally, we are going to be getting rid of the history in SVN, which for > the most part is a bunch of commits saying "sync to the head of TFS." We are > doing this to get a fresh start. The layout of the new Git repository is > going to exactly match our internal layout. That makes maintaining the > transforms from TFS to GIT much easier. It also will make things easier when > talking about the locations of files. > > > > We hope that these changes will make things easier for all of you. > > > > Thanks, > > > > ~~~~ > > JD > > http://blog.jredville.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > -- Michael Letterle [Polymath Prokrammer] http://blog.prokrams.com
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