On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 01:51:41AM -0500, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> There is a remote possibility (and I put the stress on "remote") that a 
> software collection with Ruby 1.8.7 and a subset of Rubygems will go into 
> Fedora 17 (see [1] for information on software collections). However, 
> maintaining software collections is a huge overhead and we should focus on 
> the new stuff more - like getting newest versions into Rawhide and encourage 
> everyone to use them (and actually use them ourselves). Ruby 1.8.7 will be 
> reaching EOL in year and half [2] and only a half of year from that is normal 
> maintenance, so it's time to move on.

I agree. All I'm arguing for is a transition period rather than a hard
cutover.

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