This all sounds excellent =) Travis
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Laurent Sansonetti <lsansone...@apple.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > Now that the vacations are behind us (well, behind me at least :)), it's > time to focus on converging MacRuby for its first stable release, 1.0. My > goal is to release it somewhere in 2011 (the sooner the better :)). > In order to smoothly achieve that goal, it's also time to accelerate the > current release system and improve the way we classify and address incoming > bugs reports. After talking with the others committers we decided on the > following: > 1) Much more frequent releases > Starting from now we will release more frequently. Until we reach 1.0, > releases will mostly contain bug fixes and improvements, and practically no > feature. As a matter of fact, I intend to release trunk as 0.8 next week. By > releasing MacRuby more frequently we hope people will also test MacRuby more > frequently, and report more bugs. > 2) Better bug management > We have too many bugs registered in the tracker, and it's a pain to manage > all of them. Starting from now, we will classify all existing bugs as well > as incoming ones in two categories: for 1.0 and for later. We will then only > focus on bugs for 1.0. The second step is to reduce the problem into a small > test case (if applicable) then attach the #reduction keyword. Once bugs are > properly reduced, we can fix them more easily. We intend to attach a keyword > to bugs that seem to be easy to fix, this way new comers can help and learn > how MacRuby works. > 3) Bug smash days > We will organize bug smash days. They will happen on an IRC channel (details > forthcoming). The first one will happen this saturday, 6th December. We will > have people from 3 different time zones (US west coast, Europe and Japan) on > the IRC channel, and our first task will be to start managing all the bugs, > using the method described above. New comers are greatly welcomed and we > will make sure everyone who wants to help can help. > 4) Compatibility support page > The big challenge for MacRuby 1.0 is to have excellent Ruby compatibility. > We currently have 2 metrics to test our Ruby compatibility: RubySpec and > Rails. However it's not enough, there are lots of Ruby libraries and C > extensions around that we can't afford to test by ourselves. Therefore, we > intend to prepare a webpage on the website that lists Ruby libraries that > are known to work with MacRuby, and those who don't run yet. We will make > sure the community can easily update that page. Having an updated list of > libraries that we should run should help the team fixing compatibility bugs. > That's all for now, bug if you have any suggestion on how to improve the > current development process, please let us know. > Laurent > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
