The last few pair programming sessions had worked out very well. Since its been 
a while since we did one, I want to find out if anyone is interested in doing 
in again next week. Reply (just to me) if you have an IronRuby-task (some 
suggestions at http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/contributing) that you 
would like help with. Once I know who all are interested, we can work out a 
time that works for everyone.

Here is the info from http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/debugging :
Pair debugging with experienced IronRuby developers

Some experienced IronRuby developers may be available to debug a problem with 
you. Watching over their shoulder can help a newcomer to the code base learn 
debugging tips and techniques. To make this a fruitful exercise, please follow 
the following guidelines:

  *   Send email to 
ironruby-core@rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core@rubyforge.org> asking if any 
experienced developer is available to help you
  *   Ensure that you can build and successfully run all of the 
RubySpec<http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/rubyspec> tests.
  *   Restrict the problems to pure Ruby code which is known to work with MRI. 
Ensuring a clean working baseline functionality in MRI ensures that the problem 
truly in IronRuby. Without a known clean MRI baseline, the problem can be in a 
component other than IronRuby which you are as well-equipped to diagnose as 
anyone else.
  *   Set up a clean repro. Spend time ensuring that it is not a configuration 
issue, and that the problem can be easily reproduced on other machines. 
Document detailed information about your platform, version of IronRuby, and the 
steps to repro the problem.
  *   Do basic debugging by yourself beforehand. This will ensure that you get 
the most out of the session and can keep up with what's going on over Live 
Meeting.
  *   Set up Live Meeting<http://livemeeting.com> on your machine, which will 
allow you to watch the debugging session.
  *   The Live Meeting invite will be sent by email just before the scheduled 
hour.
  *   The email invite will also contain a toll-free number to dial in to. If 
you cannot call in, add the experienced developer as a friend/buddy in some 
Chat program so that you can ask questions during the debugging session.

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