From: Richard Lyman <lymans@...>
Date: 2005-03-16T07:33:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Codefest Grant - RubyGems cleanup and enhancement

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 04:48:49 +0900, Ryan Davis <ryand@zenspider.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 14, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Ryan Davis wrote:
> 
> > On Mar 14, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Ben Giddings wrote:
> >> Eric Hodel wrote:
> >>> Combining RPA and Gems is probably not going to be done during our
> >>> Codefest.
> >> Is there any chance you could start this process a little bit?
> > no
> 
> Lemme clarify a bit more.
> 
> Everyone STFU about RPA vs Gems. It is completely and 100% OT to this
> thread. We were mining for data and you guys introduced pure noise.
> 
> Just for total clarity, here is the original email:
> 
> > Seattle.rb will be hosting a RubyGems cleanup and enhancement codefest!
> >
> > We would like to solicit your ideas on what you want to see cleaned up
> > or enhanced in RubyGems.
> >
> > For our Codefest we do not plan on making large changes to the way
> > RubyGems works.  One thing we would like to focus on is making the gem
> > command more friendly when you hit ^C, for example.
> >
> > Combining RPA and Gems is probably not going to be done during our
> > Codefest.
> 
> We'd like to show up w/ a prioritized list of things we'd like to do
> and maybe even some already failing unit tests so we can be on task
> from the very beginning. Instead, we are weeding through a bunch of
> dogmatic crap that we didn't ask for and are not much closer to having
> said list. I've flagged a couple of email for ideas, but they are a
> vast minority thus-far.
> 
> P.S. That goes for writing a whole GUI frontend as well. We are meeting
> for ONE WEEKEND.
> 
> 

I'm confused. _What_ goes for writing a whole GUI frontend?

You're going to write a frontend for 'gems'? The _first_ release
should be entirely possible in one weekend with a couple of good
developers.

I'm curious so that I know if I should bother to start thinking about
it on my own or not...

... on the other hand...

If you're telling me to STFU about discussing the fact that I think a
GUI for the whole 'gems' concept would be an enhancement (since you
asked for our ideas on possible enhancements), then I'm really
confused...

I guess I just think that STFU is pretty harsh for a list like
'ruby-talk'... and as a possible point of interest: I personally
decided to try and live without RPA since one of the 'developers' had
such bad PR. I'd really hate to see 'gems' go the same route.

Thanks for contributing! I hope I can contribute too.

-Rich