Just to be clear, I think antares is being his usual self: telling people how to be awesome hackers. We absolutely share your concerns about transition and I have addressed them several times. We will be starting work on a public test suite for ActionPack very very shortly. Feel free to follow along as we go :)
-- Yehuda On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]>wrote: > > As a person who makes these sorts of tech decisions I far prefer a > rough measure of quality over fictional dates. Sure, goals are good -- > but test suites around a migration plan is going to be build my > confidence more than business truisms about community and make believe > timelines. > > > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Samo Korosec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Just a sidenote: some people don't have the time to read the merb and > > Rails sourcecode 3-4 times over and there are certainly bosses who > > would not tolerate something like that at all. Some may be lucky to > > have an environment like that, but a lot of people don't. It's > > understandable that they want to save as much time as possible, > > especially if the learning has to be done partly in their spare time. > > > > I don't find it strange that people who want to use and propagate merb/ > > Rails are also cautious to not have it leave a bad impression in their > > organization. Starting with something and having to re-learn it afresh > > in 6 months is not something people look forward to and less something > > that would impress a manager who's commiting to merb starting now. > > > > I'd suggest the merb/Rails core team picks a rough date by which they > > will announce their merging plans and the suggested roadmaps and > > timeline that the users can use with their planning and refer to that > > whenever questions arise. > > > > Samo > > > > On 25 Dez., 18:20, Michael Klishin <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> On 25.12.2008, at 9:54, MyMerb wrote: > >> > >> > What should i do now... Should start learning Rails books from scratch > >> > or stick to my Merb collection/Tutorials and spend more time to master > >> > it...? > >> > >> Same old song from same singer, MyMerb. You should *learn* and not > >> worry about stuff that does not matter. Rails 3 is almost half a year > >> away, maybe you will be working with something completely different by > >> then. > >> > >> In 6 months you can read the whole Rails and Merb sources 3-4 times > >> each, collect a bunch of questions and ask them a couple of times. Do > >> so and you will be a way better hacker than vast majority of people in > >> the industry. > >> > >> MK > > > > > > > > > -- Yehuda Katz Developer | Engine Yard (ph) 718.877.1325 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
