From: Charles Oliver Nutter Date: 2006-11-11T02:43:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Future Plans for Ruby 1.8 Series why the lucky stiff wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 05:39:42PM +0900, URABE Shyouhei wrote: >> (1) Ruby development goes into three-branch-model (like branches in *BSD >> world): >> - CURRENT branch: trunk (currently ruby 1.9) >> - STABLE branch: ruby_1_8 branch that exists now >> - RELEASE branch: new branch to only adopt bug fixes >> >> Where should ruby_1_8 go? > > I would like (1), since I have hopes of adding sandbox to the ruby_1_8 line and > seeing it released previous to 1.9.1. Are there plans to actually release the STABLE branch? > > _why > I agree, because I have other hopes for additions to 1.8 (like the Kernel.ruby method to launch a new ruby script in an implementation-independent way). What is the official word from Matz on whether there's a feature or implementation freeze for 1.8? Isn't 1.9.1 a development release anyway, not intended to become a wide release? If 1.8 series is really done, and 2.0 is not on any published timeline, what about performance, security, stability fixes in the interim like this DoS fix or Michael Selig's performance fixes or why's sandbox? We're also interested from a JRuby standpoint...if it's intended that people would move to 1.9.1 as "current" Ruby next year, we would start considering how to make JRuby forward-compatible. If 1.9.1 is purely a development release (albeit a bigger, better, faster development release) then people will be on the "frozen" 1.8 for much longer than a year. -- Charles Oliver Nutter, JRuby Core Developer Blogging on Ruby and Java @ headius.blogspot.com Help spec out Ruby today! @ www.headius.com/rubyspec headius@headius.com -- charles.nutter@sun.com