[#11439] comments needed for Random class — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>

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15 messages 2007/06/12

[#11450] Re: new method dispatch rule (matz' proposal) — David Flanagan <david@...>

This is a late response to the very long thread that started back in

17 messages 2007/06/13

[#11482] Ruby Changes Its Mind About Non-Word Characters — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

Does this look like a bug to anyone else?

10 messages 2007/06/16

[#11505] Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...4x.org>

1.8.6 thread support was broken in bad ways. It stayed for three months

20 messages 2007/06/20
[#11512] Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...> 2007/06/20

Hi, I'm the 1.8.6 branch manager.

[#11543] Re: Apple reportedly to ship with ruby 1.8.6-p36 unless informed what to patch — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:

10 messages 2007/06/27

Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle

From: "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...>
Date: 2007-06-21 03:35:47 UTC
List: ruby-core #11522
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 17:25, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 20/06/07, Alexey Verkhovsky <alexey.verkhovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/20/07, Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
...
> > As a downstream packager of sorts (http://rubyworks.thoughtworks.com),
> > I would be delighted, not annoyed, to receive a message every couple
> > of days (historical rate of patchlevel tags for 1.8.6) along the lines
> > of "hi, I've just tagged patchlevel X, it fixes bugs Y and Z".
> >
> > I realize that the same information could be obtained by watching the
> > 1_8_6 branch on Subversion, but that's extra digging for the knowledge
> > you have in your head when you tag a patchlevel.
>
> The commit messages should include that so it's only a matter of
> sending the commit messages to some sort of mailing list to which
> people could subscribe.

RSS or Atom feeds are also a nice way of getting this information, but 
somebody has to generate them.  If Ruby used Trac as it's bug tracking 
software, it would have RSS feeds automatically, but since it doesn't, there 
are a couple of ways to easily do this.

The ideal way requires the Subversion admins to set up a post-commit hook.  
Instructions are here:
 
http://www.friday.com/bbum/2006/08/17/howto-adding-an-rss-feed-to-a-subversion-server/

and the software is here:

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/tools/hook-scripts/svn2feed.py

Another way is to do the same thing with the post-commit hook, but rather than 
use a python script, run the mkatom.sh script in the tarball attached to this 
email (requires xsltproc) and expose the resulting feed.atom via HTTP.  It 
doesn't have to be a post-commit hook, but to be done externally, it'll have 
to be set up to poll.

In any case, post-commit hooks can do this all; I personally prefer a pull 
technology rather than yet another mailing list to maintain, but that's just 
a matter of preference.  It could be set up to spam people, too.

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