From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T01:39:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22041] Re: 1.8.7 Specifics

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> The current 1.8.6 maintainer Shyouhei sitting next to me right now,
> just said he'd happy to pass maintenance responsibility if one is
> willing.  So, in case, some one or some organization have interest,
> let us know.

I think this is a great idea, Matz.    I fully plan to use Ruby 1.9.1
as much as possible in my day to day work, but need to support legacy
code all over the place, and a userbase for my free software projects
that may not be as quick to make the jump as I am.  Seeing some
organization take care of bug fixes and stabilization of 1.8.6, at
least until the majority have moved to 1.9, would be great.   This
also means that those interested in the latest changes that ruby-core
make to 1.8.x can get them if they want, but that those who need to
support non-geeks or those that work for non-geeks have an avenue as
well.

-greg

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