[#3479] Missing .document files for ext/ libraries — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>

The ri documentation for zlib, strscan and iconv doesn't get built by 'make

12 messages 2004/10/06

[#3492] Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch — Markus <markus@...>

> In message "Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch"

15 messages 2004/10/11
[#3493] Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/10/11

Hi,

[#3495] Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch — Markus <markus@...> 2004/10/12

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:16, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#3561] 1.8.2 - what can we do to help? — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

Folks:

23 messages 2004/10/26
[#3562] Re: 1.8.2 - what can we do to help? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/10/27

Hi,

Re: 1.8.2 - what can we do to help?

From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-10-27 14:12:19 UTC
List: ruby-core #3577
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 11:11:49 PM, Francis wrote:

> [...]

> Am I totally off-base here?

Slightly.  My perspective is that ruby-core is a perfectly suitable
place to bring up issues in the standard library.  The code might have
a single author, but being distributed with Ruby, it has many de facto
maintainers.  Patches can be proposed, and I doubt Matz would hesitate
to commit them if the original author can't be contacted.

That's my opinion, not necessarily existing policy.

Standard of documentation is a separate, but obviously important
matter.  Matz has said on -core that any future additions to stdlib
must be well documented.

The question of where bug reports go is often asked, yet to me it's
obvious: ruby-core (or ruby-talk if the finder is not subscribed to
-core).  It's better than sending them nowhere; it's better to bring
them to wide attention, not just the original author.  And someone
will pipe up and tell you if they should go somewhere else.  But even
if/when we use a RubyForge project to track bugs, they will never be
off-topic on -talk or -core, and it may be better to discuss a bug
before tracking it.

Perhaps I'm off-base here, but I guess it would help to work out real
answers to these questions and stick them in the FAQ, and on a
bug-reporting section of ruby-lang.

Cheers,
Gavin


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