From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T19:51:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22051] A short memorandum (Re: 1.8.7 Specifics)

Let me leave a memo to remember issues I can think of.

Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> We will need a little bit of time to coordinate the transfer of
> stewardship and setup communication channels to you guys for security
> related issues. Monday is a holiday here and I need to prepare for this
> a little bit before we can fully take over. But we can start the
> planning process now.

* When to transfer

Could I ask you a favor?  In fact it is a bit inconvenient for me
to pass you current 1.8.6 source code right now, because a series
of backportings are now in practice.

It is technically possible for me to  do all that job in a day or
two, but last time I did a backport rush rubyspec people screamed
with the  amount of changes.   So I want  to do that  slowly this
time.  Current expectation in my mind is to finish backporting in
this month and to make a new (and possibly last) 1.8.6 release at
some point in March.

I will be really happy if the stewardship transfer can be delayed
until that.


* Where to host 1.8.6 source code

My recommendation  is not to move from  ruby-lang.org.  Thanks to
massive efforts  made by yugui  we already have  a semi-automatic
issue tracking on redmine.rubyu-lang.org  in service.  It is much
easier for you to get used to that than reinvent a wheel.

But I  do not stop you  to move elsewhere.  Above  is my personal
recommendation.  Feel free to use github or whatever when you are
motivated.  In that case, we need to think about bug reports:


* Report line

People tend not  to know what version they  are using.  Splitting
1.8.6  issue tracker  should  not  make us  happy.   You need  an
account  on  our  ITS, and  act  as  a  release manager  on  some
projects.

Talking about security issues  our current public window for them
is security@ruby-lang.org.  You should listen to that channel.