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Re: Ruby Bug Day: Rubinius, JRuby, etc etc etc

Gustav - Railist

12/14/2006 1:15:00 PM


>
> So the question is:
> 1. Are there any people interested?
Sure! I generally feel to 'noobish' to bother the core members of
significant projects with questions on how I can start helping out.

Nothing can replace having questions answered in a live conversation
with those knowledgeable in the area (after doing research on your own
first of course). For instance, if one of my friends had not been an
experienced Linux user of many years, learning the tricks of the trade
whilst crossing over from Windows would have been much more difficult.
That's why mailing lists are so cool! So yeah, big up!
>
> 2. How should we do it?
Looking at other successful community projects like Firefox, with its
daily (I think?) testing periods might be a good place to get ideas?

Anyway, just the opinion of one of those newbies that will be getting
helped out.

Gustav Paul
gustav@rails.co.za
2 Answers

pat eyler

12/14/2006 8:28:00 PM

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On 12/14/06, Alex Combas <alex.combas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/06, Gustav Paul <gustav@rails.co.za> wrote:
> Well the problem is developers are really busy people.
> Sometimes though they are willing to sacrifice a day and
> set that time aside in order to help get newly interested
> developers started.
>
> It all depends on them.
>
> You'd think that if it meant getting new developers excited about
> your project and closing bugs at the same time that every
> project would be clamboring to have a bi-monthly bug day.
>
> But developers are really busy people, so its understandable
> they may not have the time.
>
> Maybe we should just outright ask them if they would be willing?


The rubinius folks are working on something right now. They're
certainly willing. The JRuby guys are a bit distracted right now
with a pair of conferences, but I think they'll catch up on this
thread soon enough.

>
> --
> Best regards,
> http://noodlej...
>
>


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thanks,
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Charles Oliver Nutter

12/17/2006 3:46:00 PM

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pat eyler wrote:
> The rubinius folks are working on something right now. They're
> certainly willing. The JRuby guys are a bit distracted right now
> with a pair of conferences, but I think they'll catch up on this
> thread soon enough.

Finally settled in somewhere with reliable internet access. Hello Rotterdam!

Every day is a bug day with JRuby, and we're accepting patches
constantly now. Rails is getting closer and closer to 100%, performance
increases day by day, and some apps are almost completely supported now
(RSpec, for example, has something like 99% of its specs running
flawlessly on JRuby).

The easiest way to help out JRuby as a Ruby user is to just start
running apps and libraries and unit tests under JRuby. If you find a
problem, document it. If you're Java-inclined, dig into the code; it's
much more approachable than the C code, and we're under active
development so patches are quite welcome.

And for app and library developers: start considering JRuby to be a real
Ruby implementation you test against. More and more folks are trying out
JRuby, and it's starting to pop up in more and more places. Help us find
any issues that prevent your app or library from working 100%, and when
we've got those issue resolved, include JRuby in your test runs. We
would be very, very appreciative.

--
Charles Oliver Nutter, JRuby Core Developer
Blogging on Ruby and Java @ headius.blogspot.com
Help spec out Ruby today! @ www.headius.com/rubyspec
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