From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2011-06-22T12:08:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:37285] Re: Ruby 1.8.6 status

On Jun 21, 2011, at 7:13 PM, Kirk Haines wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> wrote:
>> 2011/6/22 Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>:
>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know the status of Ruby 1.8.6?
>>> 
>>> Did this get an official response somewhere else?
>> 
>> I don't get any official and personal response.
>> 
>> So I'm more certain about my guess: Ruby 1.8.6 is not maintained now.
>> I stopped CI for Ruby 1.8.6.  That's fine.
> 
> Apologies. I didn't see these messages until just now.  The
> maintenance of 1.8.6 is an open question, I would say.  I have a
> desire to do one final release of it, to wrap up some outstanding
> issues for people who are still using it. However, even amongst the
> body of Engine Yard users who are still using it (and there is a
> surprisingly large number who are), there seems to be little desire
> for a lot of additional time to be put into it.
> 
> So, I guess I will put the question out there.  Should it be wrapped
> up as is, at pl420, or should I make a push for a final release,
> perhaps around the end of summer, and have that release mark the end
> of formal 1.8.6 maintenance?

If you have customers who need the stability, what's the harm in a final push?

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