From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2007-09-11T02:12:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Next 1.8.6 on Sept. 22

On 9/10/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
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> Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> > 1.8.x will continue to need bugfix releases for quite some time after
> > the release of 1.9. There are many apps that will never need/want to
> > upgrade, just as there were with 1.6.
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> > New features in 1.8.. I agree that those should only go in if they are
> > totally awesome. That decision will, of course, be up to the
> > maintainer in the end.
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> Yes ... bug fixes but no new features. You're one of the Rubinius
> developers, right? How badly would new features impact you?
>

We would be honored to implement any new behavior that happened to
make its way into 1.8. :)

I don't see 1.8 changing rapidly enough to be much trouble to track,
at this point.  Grammar changes are a little harder to follow, but
still pretty straightforward.