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A plea to all RubyForge maintainers

Jay Levitt

11/26/2007 10:18:00 PM

Please remember that there are a number of people who read the global
RubyForge RSS feed, which lists news updates to EVERY project. (OK,
honestly, I have no idea how many other people do this. But "one" is a
number too, and according to Sesame Street[1], I'm the most important
person in the whole wide world.)

It's very nice to know that your brand-new project is in alpha, and that
you're refactoring it so trunk may be unstable, and that it now includes
unit tests, and that it has experimental BeOS support.

But you know what I really want to know when I read your news update?

WHAT THE (*$#$( IS IT?

Thank you.

[1] Actually, it wasn't Sesame Street at all. It was a series of
syndicated shorts commissioned by the U.S. Office of Child Development:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l...

--
Jay Levitt |
Boston, MA | My character doesn't like it when they
Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit.
http://... | - Kristoffer
5 Answers

Ryan Davis

11/27/2007 2:09:00 AM

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On Nov 26, 2007, at 14:20 , Jay Levitt wrote:

> WHAT THE (*$#$( IS IT?

HAHAHA!!! I dunno how many times I've bitched about that... thank you.

Giles Bowkett

11/27/2007 5:10:00 AM

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> > WHAT THE (*$#$( IS IT?
>
> HAHAHA!!! I dunno how many times I've bitched about that... thank you.

Wow, that's a supercool time sink. Just for the hell of it, though,
doesn't every RubyForge project have a short description string? Why
not just build that into the RSS feed?

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Jay Levitt

11/27/2007 6:27:00 AM

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:09:41 -0500, Giles Bowkett wrote:

> Wow, that's a supercool time sink. Just for the hell of it, though,
> doesn't every RubyForge project have a short description string? Why
> not just build that into the RSS feed?

If they were all as well-writen and up-to-date as the rest of the articles,
then yes, they'd be worth it. It often seems a place to quickly mention
wher you got toe ideas from, so as not to stoke anger over forking or
crediting..

Let's look at a few.

RSpec, which I know and love, and which most here know at least enough to
hate, says:

| RSpec is a Behaviour Driven Development framework for Ruby. It implements
| concepts described in Dave Astel's first BDD article:
| http://tinyurl....

So to someone not following along the BDD-TDD spectrum drama, this say
"RSpec has ported BDD to Ruby, based in the same ideas from this guy's
first book." Woo! In marketing, now that's what we call a "call to
action" - in the undergrad classes.

And that's a MODEL project. Digging Deeper:

AngelMap 1.04 - lots of new features
Nov 26, 2007

|There are lots of new features in this release of AngelMap. - The map
| itself automatically sizes with the browser window - Lots of new
| filters to let you tailor the missions that are shown. You can
| specify things like maximum weight, distance or passengers. You
| can choose to hide multi-leg missions, and lots more. - New
| ability to search for missions where both the departure AND
| destination airports are within a given distance of your home airport.
|
| http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?foru...

OK, so it's some type of graphical map overlay thing with various airports
and teams organizing missions. The strat of a wargame? Training for a
logistics solution? we don't now. THeir main page summary, from a
different rubyforge page, says

| AngelMap is a Rails application that gets a feed of available Angel
| Flight missions and shows them on a Google Map. You can filter the
| list of missions by a distance or time window. See it running at
| http://angelmap.p...

OK, that's... well, it slightly reduces the number of wild mental stories
the reader might have otherwise had, but other than that, it doesn't tell
me anything about why I might want to use this in my own project and what
else it could be used for, if I didn't know what Angel Flight was. There's
no magic "In the process of designing a live feed handler for Angel Flight,
a game popular in Luxembourg, we created a state-driven, high-performing
action handler that can carry out actions as a linear function of the
number of inputs.. thus showing uses in blah blha blha.'


Help make RubyForge druy - talk about how you relate to the other projects
there!



--
Jay Levitt |
Boston, MA | My character doesn't like it when they
Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit.
http://... | - Kristoffer

Steven Lumos

11/29/2007 12:36:00 AM

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Jay Levitt <jay+news@jay.fm> writes:
> But you know what I really want to know when I read your news update?
>
> WHAT THE (*$#$( IS IT?
>
> Thank you.

And it's not just the RSS--it's the RubyForge front page!

Steve

Tom Copeland

11/29/2007 3:41:00 AM

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On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 09:35 +0900, Steven Lumos wrote:
> Jay Levitt <jay+news@jay.fm> writes:
> > But you know what I really want to know when I read your news update?
> >
> > WHAT THE (*$#$( IS IT?
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> And it's not just the RSS--it's the RubyForge front page!

Yup, but those get filtered... only about a third of the news items
actually make it to the front page.

Yours,

tom