From: pat eyler Date: 2005-04-22T23:46:48+09:00 Subject: [ANN] the Ruby Programming Shop Announcing the Ruby Programming Shop (RPS) It's no secret that there is a lot of Ruby code out there that needs to be cleaned up (it's old, untested, undocumented, and maybe even abandoned). The RPS povides a way to 'rescue' that code and make it shine. We'll limit ourselves to free software, and will contact the original author (when possible) to get his/her blessing. There are a lot of Ruby-nubies out there (and more every day). They (and we) could all use the opportunity to sit down with a veteran Ruby programmer, to learn 'the Ruby way'. The RPS will give them the opprtunity to do just that. We'll pick one library to work on for two months at a time, this will a project. One person (or a Ruby Brigade) will take charge of coordinating each project. Every project will be split into 4-5 two week iterations. Each iteration will conclude with a release to the community of the work done so far. Each project will conclude with a final release of the project back to the original maintainer (should one exist) or to a new maintainer (if the library was abandoned). Please join us at our wiki: http://therps.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl and on our mailing list: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/therps-discuss/ Right now, we need to flesh out our list of libraries to work on, and select a library for May/June. Come on in, sit down, and help make Ruby shine! -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said - the Raven (George MacDonald, Lilith)