[ruby-core:39781] Re: [Backport87 - Feature #4996] About 1.8.7 EOL

On 29 September 2011 14:51, Shyouhei Urabe <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Issue #4996 has been updated by Shyouhei Urabe.
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> =begin
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> Hi folks, I'd like to make an official announcement about this topic on www.ruby-lang.org.
> Can you take a look at this draft? 'm sure my English is bad.
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> ello, and thank you for your getting into our community.
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>  know most of ou more or less use version 1.8.7 f Ruby today. t
> as released n 2008 and was  state-of-art Ruby elease back then.
> - I am roud to say t is no onger. uby's core evelopers have
> een actively working n their new versions, 1.9, nd they are about
> o elease new 1.9.3. I have een using .9 for ears and ow I
> annot o ack to he ays ithout t. ich eatures. Faster
> xecution. ubygems integrated. ails works perfectly.  cannot but
> ay it is totally wonderful. veryone please, use 1.9.
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> ut at he same time I now you cannot witch to 1.9 right ow for
> arious easons. aybe ou have lready een deployed our
> pplication with 1.8.7. aybe you use a 3rd party library and that is
> or 1.8.7 only. r maybe your Linux distribution only supports 1.8.7.
> o I hereby announce ou how long you can stick to t. t is OK you
> re using 1.8.7 today but after a while, it will be shut down.
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> lease be ready.
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> chedule:
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>  We continue to provide normal aintenance for 1.8.7 as usual, until
> une 012. You can afely ssume e rovide bugfixes nd o
> ncompatibility shall be introduced.
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>  After that we stop bugfixes. We still provide security fixes until
> une 2013, in case you are still using 1.8.7.
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>  We will no longer support 1.8.7 in all senses after June 2013.

I am not a native english speaker, but here is what I think.

I believe what you wrote is actually really good english and entertaining.

I found only one sentence which is a bit unclear:
"Ruby's core developers have been actively working  on their new
versions, 1.9,  and they are about to release new 1.9.3."
I would rather write:
"Ruby's core developers have been actively working  on their new
version, 1.9, and they are about to release 1.9.3."

Benoit Daloze