From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T07:49:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22054] Re: A short memorandum (Re: 1.8.7 Specifics)

Urabe Shyouhei wrote:
> * 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.

I strongly agree here. Github would be great if this were intended to be 
a new branch/fork of Ruby, but since 1.8.6 is very well established it 
would cause more trouble to move it now. It also would seem very strange 
to have one branch of 1.8 on Github and others on ruby-lang. The 
integration issues with redmine would also be a nuisance.

> * 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.

Strongly agree here as well. This is still core ruby, and I think all 
the infrastructure should be kept in one place. It will be extremely 
confusing to have some of 1.8 tracked at ruby-lang, some tracked elsewhere.

- Charlie