Merb is slowly resurrecting into an active development project again, and we're reorganizing things a bit so the project is easier to maintain via a small and distributed group of contributors. If you still use Merb and would like to make your impact, now's a great time to take ownership of your piece of the framework. We currently have about half a dozen or so people who are contributing to Merb on an active basis, and would love to have your help steering the project back to life with a stable 1.1 release and beyond.
Source Code: The official Merb home on github has moved to http://github.com/merb. The core gems will now live at http://github.com/merb/merb. Merb's previous home (github.com/wycats/merb) has had code updated for the recent 1.0.15 release (the last of the 1.0.x). Any new releases, 1.1 and beyond, will be at github.com/merb/merb. We've separated out some gems into top level github.com/merb repositories. merb_datamapper and merb-auth are now separate repositories. They are still included and built as part of the default stack, however they'll now be maintained as separate gems. Other important gems in the Merb ecosystem have now been forked into github.com/merb. Examples include merb_sequel, merb_cucumber, merb_activerecord, and merb_parts. These gems can be considered "active and maintained". Other gems will eventually be added here as a way to highlight the most common and useful Merb plugins, and provide a better common destination for all the available forks of these plugins. Commit access can be easily obtained for any active contributors to these libraries. Merb's Lighthouse (merb.lighthouseapp.com) will continue to be the main Merb bug tracking for github.com/merb/merb. All other top level projects however will just use github's built in issue tracker. This will allow the lighthouse tickets to stay focused on the common gems used by the majority of Merb developers, while specific issues on the other Merb gems can stay as close as possible to the source and maintainers. Releases: Merb will now use gemcutter.org to host all new release and prerelease Merb gems. If you have edge.merbivore.com on as a rubygem source path, we'd recommend removing it as soon as possible and replacing it with http://gemcutter.org Documentation: We'll be migrating the previous merbivore wiki system over to a github hosted, static site repository at http://merb.github.com. This is similar to how Sinatra organizes it's docs, and any documentation contributions can be made by forking and updating the site codebase. We'll also allow commit access here for anyone who would like to actively contribute to the main docs without the overhead of approving and merging commits. For howto's and other notes, we'll use the built-in github wiki system (wiki.github.com/merb/merb). The main goal is to build up a stable documentation library within the site, so any useful content on the wiki will eventually be migrated over to the static documentation site's github repository. The Merb internals book, written by Michael Klishin, has also been integrated into the root Merb repository and will be hosted via a generated github static site at merb.github.com/internals. This will be maintained as the main getting started documentation for people who want to start hacking on the Merb source code. Matt's "Merb Book" project will also be resurrected and hosted as a github.com static site repository, hosted at merb.github.com/book. We'll probably drop the multilingual support and focus on just filling out the docs in English for now, unless someone wants to focus on translations and maintenance for any given language. Team: Pavel Kunc (github.com/pk), Martin Gamsjaeger (github.com/snusnu), Jonathon Stott (github.com/namelessjon), and Jacques Crocker (github.com/merbjedi) have been the primary drivers on this reorganization and have been actively contributing to Merb development. However, we are *not* looking to replace the old core team. What we are is Merb hackers who are looking to extend and revive the project that currently provides the absolute best tools for web development in Ruby. Since Merb is now completely dependent on the user community for patches and development of new features, any person who contributes even a single commit will be mentioned, praised, and documented as a core Merb contributor. Our goal is to be much more responsive with pull requests, so please send them to us via github and we'll try to merge in any useful code contributions that we find. The Future: Merb 1.1.0pre release to gemcutter very soon (in the next few days). It has full bundler integration, and tons of bug fixes from lighthouse. We believe it's already quite stable, but we'll be fixing addition bugs on it for the next couple weeks, with a target Merb 1.1 release shortly after RubyConf. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
