From: Dr Balwinder S Dheeman Date: 2005-04-23T04:14:32+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] the Ruby Programming Shop On 04/22/2005 08:16 PM, pat eyler wrote: > 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 Huh? On a rubyforge site what wiki.pl (perl) is for? > and on our mailing list: > http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/therps-discuss/ Both the mailing-list archiver 'pipermail' and mailing-list manager 'mailman' are python powered here too; but why? > 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! -- Dr Balwinder Singh Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 CLLO (Chief Linux Learning Officer) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Anu's Linux@HOME Distros: Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix More: http://anu.homelinux.net/~bsd/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/