[ruby-core:45786] Re: How can I contribute?

On 23/06/2012, at 2:39 AM, David Albert wrote:
> Hello ruby-core,
> 
> I've been using ruby as my primary language for two years now and I like it quite a lot. I'd like to start contributing back to it, but I don't know where to begin. Does anyone have any pointers as to where I can be helpful?

Don't bother. You can make all the contributions you want, but no-one even responds
when you try to discuss them, or even to offers advice on how to proceed.

That's my recent experience anyhow. I'm still hoping to be proved wrong.

Clifford Heath.

> A bit of background: I'm pretty comfortable with the ruby language, C api, and codebase. I've written a couple of small C extensions and have a cursory understanding of how the garbage collector works and how objects are stored. More recently, I've been spending some time learning about how YARV works (iseq generation, opcodes, method definition, FrozenCore, etc).
> 
> I have been looking into https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5776, and I've made some progress. At some point between 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 the visibility of top level inner method definitions changed from private to public: https://gist.github.com/2973857. Because everything typed into irb is eval'd with the binding from inside the top level Object#irb_binding method (lib/irb/workspace.rb:51), all top level method definitions in irb have become public. I haven't learned enough yet to know why this change happened and if it was intended, but I imagine I can get there soon.
> 
> Hopefully this is enough to help you understand the level I'm at. I'm happy to continue working on #5776 or contribute to something else. Any advice or direction would be wonderful.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Dave