From: Eric Hodel Date: 2005-03-16T10:00:55+09:00 Subject: Re: Codefest Grant - RubyGems cleanup and enhancement --Apple-Mail-22--516345876 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On 15 Mar 2005, at 14:33, Richard Lyman wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 04:48:49 +0900, Ryan Davis > wrote: >> >> 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? Not going to happen. > You're going to write a frontend for 'gems'? No. > The _first_ release > should be entirely possible in one weekend with a couple of good > developers. Exactly. The Codefest Grant is enough for one weekend, so what's the purpose of spending money on us if what we develop is unlikely to be maintained or finished? (I'm not terribly interested in maintaining it, and I'm certainly not interested in GUI toolkit headaches either.) I'd much rather see the Codefest Grant money put to a use that will have the greatest benefit to Ruby, and a GUI only falls under the "ooh! shiny!" category for me. Things like behaving nicely to ^C or a command to remove old gems are much more beneficial and I think the community will get more value for their donated dollars. We're looking for the rough edges and dull surfaces to sand down and polish. (Yeah, I'm going to be spending your money, so I don't want to be producing stillborn projects.) The idea is to pull off a huge success so we (the community) can point to something and say "look what your donated dollars bought!" This way more dollars will be donated which allows larger, longer projects to be funded. -- Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://segment7.net FEC2 57F1 D465 EB15 5D6E 7C11 332A 551C 796C 9F04 --Apple-Mail-22--516345876 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCN4U4MypVHHlsnwQRApS5AJ9B2OjCJkpWzkXP7AbSfVHjN9iDXgCguFto MkGdoAX8SG15p76Q1d6A0kU= =yU3/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-22--516345876--