From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T07:53:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22055] Re: A short memorandum (Re: 1.8.7 Specifics)

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 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.

A shorter way to say what I mean: 1.8.6 should not move without all of 
Ruby moving. I'm not opposed to Github in principal, just to having 
multiple places for ruby-core infrastructure.

- Charlie