[ruby-core:36087] Re: draft schedule of Ruby 1.9.3

Hi Yugui, is there any plans for the next patch release of 1.9.2?

Currently, Ruby support is broken in Debian unstable, for instance. It 
would be great to include a new patch release as soon as possible 
containing this fix:

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4556

For those unfamiliar with the problem, here is a summary.

Debian has disabled SSLv2 in their last package libssl1.0.0 due to 
security vulnerabilities (Ruby can be installed with 0.9.8 which was 
compiled with SSLv2 enabled).

Ruby 1.9.2-p180 does not provide an option for compiling it without 
SSLv2 support. RVM allows compiling openssl from source and using it with:

http://beginrescueend.com/packages/openssl/

This has at least two problems:

1 - People concerned about security might not want to enable SSLv2;
2 - That is what most concerns me. It gets almost impossible to use the 
pg gem in Debian unstable:

That is due libpq depending on system libssl which is not compatible 
with the openssl provided by RVM which Ruby has been compiled against. 
This results in segmentation fault keeping it very hard to have, for 
instance, a Rails 3 application with PostgreSQL databases in Debian 
unstable.

If #4556 is included in the next patch release to 1.9.2 this would be 
much simpler to deal with.

Is there any schedule for that?

Best regards,

Rodrigo.

Em 09-05-2011 12:43, Yuki Sonoda (Yugui) escreveu:
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> Hi,
>
> First of all, I am sorry for proposing a plan to Ruby 1.9.3 so late.
> I missed proposing it because of the earthquake in Japan.
>
> Now Ruby 1.9.3 is much stable than on Feb.  Its feature is getting
> stable. It's time to decide a plan to release Ruby 1.9.3.
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> I propose the following rough schedule.
> * The end of May: feature freeze.  create ruby_1_9_3 branch.
> * The end of Jan: implementation freeze.  don't change without
> permission after that.
> * The end of Jul or early Aug: release Ruby 1.9.3
>
> The possible release blocker is the recent improvement of GVL.  It is a
> change in the core piece of Ruby and I would like to have it in Ruby
> 1.9.3 if possible.
> I believe Kosaki-san is recently reviewing locks in YARV.  Will it have
> finished on the end of Jun?
>
> What do you think about the schedule?