[ruby-core:32706] Re: [Ruby 1.9-Bug#3889][Open] Incorrectly detected i686-w64-mingw32 as x64-mingw

From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2010-10-06 02:49:58 UTC
List: ruby-core #32706
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 03:41:01AM +0900, Luis Lavena wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Aaron Patterson
> <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:03:23PM +0900, Shyouhei Urabe wrote:
> >> Issue #3889 has been updated by Shyouhei Urabe.
> >>
> >> Status changed from Closed to Open
> >>
> >> Reopening. =A0We need a port maintainer.
> >
> > I think Luis should be the port maintainer. =A0Luis, what do you think?
> >
>=20
> Thank you Aaron for the vote, but I'm interested first in understand
> what are the roles and duties of a port maintainer.
>=20
> 100% of the work done for RubyInstaller is around mingw and mingw-w64
> versions of GCC, I can provide a daily test base and work on this.
>=20
> However, on this same thread wanabe committed a patch I generated
> which only touched mingw section of mkexports. If I has given commits
> bits, I would have done the same.

It seems to me (maybe I am wrong) that wanabe only reverted because he
is not the mingw maintainer.  As far as I can tell, nobody is.  If you
were the mingw maintainer, I think you would decide how to fix mingw
problems.

> I would like to understand better the roles and responsibilities
> before offering myself as maintainer in the light of possible
> "mistakes" I could make in the quest of a better MinGW support for
> Ruby.

I think your responsibility would be "make sure ruby works with mingw".
;-)

--=20
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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