Who is in charge here? Presumably, many people; after all that is the
open source way. However, like any engineering team with a collective
goal there must be order and structure. But it seems we have left that
up to a bug tracking system. We build new features faster then we fix
old bugs. Bugs begin to build upon other bugs. DHH a few months back
told me that the 37signals apps run from an almost bleeding edge
version of rails. That was before 2.0 was released. I do the same with
some of my apps today, and its been stable.

Naysayers who don't see the light, constantly pass Rails off as
technology lacking robustness. Its just a tool to quickly mockup a
website -- make a blog in 5 minutes. Ouch, those are the kinds of
developers that learn Java in college or PHP from a web tutorial and
proclaim mastery. Rails developers are programmers that are passionate
about their craft. They understand the art form and continually push
technology.

But now .. the bug in this posting, which will affect anyone including
two associations, has been neglected for almost a month. What
irritates me is that a patch has been ready hours after the bug was
discovered, yet the five letters ".chop" at the end of line 23 still
have not been amended. Obviously it was forgotten in the shuffle of
more exciting work such as building new features. But features are
thrown out the window if you cant maintain robustness in the process.

Regards,

Peter
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