[ruby-core:18259] Re: Definition of "Support levels", 1.9.1 supported platforms and recruitment for platform maintainers

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 13:10 +0900, Yugui (Yuki Sonoda) wrote:

> == Support plan of Ruby 1.9.1
> Supported:
>   * Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 on IA32

1. You might want to change that to "Lenny" -- I believe it will be
released/stable before Ruby 1.9.1 is.

2. Most of the Linux distros have Ruby maintainers/herds already, so I
don't think you need to worry about supporting them. And Gentoo builds
from source, so that one is more or less automatic once you release a
source tarball. But I think it's a serious mistake not to support
Fedora. At the very least, you should seriously consider building RPMs
as well as .debs. 


> These 7 platforms are now "perhaps", they can be "best effort" if a
> maintainer appears.
> * x64 GNU/Linux

I do builds from source on my Gentoo x86_64 all the time with no trouble
at all. And, as I mentioned above, chances are pretty good it will be in
Gentoo for all of the platforms where it compiles, or at least, it will
be in the Ruby overlay. They've got jRuby and a rather ancient Rubinius
too.

> The tasks which a maintainer should do are:
>  * Subscribe [e-mail] list.
>    * Also, subscribe [e-mail] if you can read Japanese.
>  * Port thread_{win32,pathread}.c to the platform if it has no
>    implementation of pthread.

Is there a Linux distro that *doesn't* have pthread?

>  * Resolve other build errors and platform specific problems.

As noted above, I do this all the time on Gentoo x86_64. I don't have
any plans to "downgrade" to a 32-bit box anytime soon, although if
you're *real nice*, I might test it on my One Laptop Per Child XO. :)

>  * Constantly build and test the trunk version of Ruby on it.

Define "constantly" ... is once a week enough?

>  * Effort to succeed in "make test-all" by 20 Dec.
> 
> Please send a mail to [e-mail] list and run for a
> maintainer if you can.

Well ... between me and the Gentoo Ruby herd, I think we can help out.
See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203706 for the status of
Ruby 1.9.x on Gentoo.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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