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- Matt


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Jan <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's so exciting that merb is resurrecting, we have one more reason not to
> rewrite our merb project in rails now. Good job :-)
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Jacques Crocker <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> 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/merbrepositories. 
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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