sounds great.

but isn't saturday the 4th, not the 6th?


emil tin


On 30/11/2010, at 00.11, Laurent Sansonetti 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
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