[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread Karel Minarik
Hi, it's great to see you picking it up so soon :) Capistrano changed the mental model of deployment forever, for lots of people, inside Rails community and outside of it. I cannot help with improving the codebase, but would gladly help with further work on documentation/tutorials, as I did

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread Simone Carletti
Thanks for your feedback Karel! I agree that Capistrano needs more documentation and I'm happy to hear someone else is available to contribute. I must confess I didn't notice your message before, I'm going to post a reply at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano/msg/654e5e84d45f9098 Talking

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano documentation, tutorials

2009-02-26 Thread Simone Carletti
My 2 cents about this topic. I agree that Capistrano needs more documentation. From one side I agree with Jamis that rdoc is not useful at all for people who wants to *use* Capistrano, but it might be helpful for those who wants to *extend* or play with it at development level. When I first

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano documentation, tutorials

2009-02-26 Thread Simone Carletti
I've been prompted to finish hashing out a load of blog articles that have been sitting round my site as drafts since forever... and get them made into real posts - I think I posted two yesterday, and will continue to post anything I think is useful. The same here! :D Maybe someone should

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi I am just glad someone is willing to step in so quickly. I think capistrano and webistrano is both great products but with an original focus on ruby/rails applications. I believe that with a bit of effort ( a bit more in webistrano) it could easily be made to be more generic. Currently I have

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread Mathias Meyer
On 26.02.2009, at 12:55, Lee Hambley wrote: Hi All, I'm a little suspect of the Webistrano/Macistrano guys taking over development, as I feel particularly that Webistrano limits the capabilities of capistrano and limits it usefulness for non-rails projects. Whilst there's still a

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread eibhinn
As another non-rails capistrano user, keeping it a flexible commandline tool is important. Since that seems to be understood, I'm all for Mathias and Jonathan stepping up. Git forks are great for experimentation, but `gem install capistrano` better know where to go or we'll lose lots of

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread Lee Hambley
Hey Jamis, I never actually bothered to check, I figured it was served from the github gem server -- completely agree with your last statement about people not really taking much interest in hacking the core before, there's no reason that people should go messing with it for no real reason now...

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread Jamis Buck
On 2/26/09 2:18 PM, Lee Hambley wrote: Hey Jamis, I never actually bothered to check, I figured it was served from the github gem server -- completely agree with your last statement about people not really taking much interest in hacking the core before, there's no reason that people

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread Jonathan Weiss
Lee Hambley wrote: My only concern would be that there is no more single place to go to get a copy, get info and learn about it, a bunch of similarly named forks, with similar feature sets would just cause trouble :) I don't think this will happen as the 'blessed' version will pretty fast

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread Jamis Buck
On 2/26/09 2:27 PM, Jonathan Weiss wrote: Lee Hambley wrote: My only concern would be that there is no more single place to go to get a copy, get info and learn about it, a bunch of similarly named forks, with similar feature sets would just cause trouble :) I don't think this will

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread Lee Hambley
+1 for a capistrano user on github... Does anyone know what happens, if Rubyforge, and Github gems both exist, which do you end up with... the newest, I suppose? - Lee 2009/2/26 Jamis Buck ja...@37signals.com On 2/26/09 2:27 PM, Jonathan Weiss wrote: Lee Hambley wrote: My only concern

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread Jamis Buck
On 2/26/09 2:39 PM, Lee Hambley wrote: +1 for a capistrano user on github... Does anyone know what happens, if Rubyforge, and Github gems both exist, which do you end up with... the newest, I suppose? Github gems are not searched unless you explicitly configure for them. Furthermore, github

[Capistrano] Re: Capistrano maintainership

2009-02-26 Thread Lee Hambley
Ahh :) That explains why I could never get my gem to install anywhere :) - Lee 2009/2/26 Jamis Buck ja...@37signals.com On 2/26/09 2:39 PM, Lee Hambley wrote: +1 for a capistrano user on github... Does anyone know what happens, if Rubyforge, and Github gems both exist, which do you