From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-06-16T05:00:08+09:00
Subject: Re: "gem update --system" ignores where I installed rubygems

On Jun 12, 2007, at 05:50, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> On 2007-06-12, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>
>> This really isn't the best place to report bugs in RubyGems since
>> the developers don't often read this list.  Filing a bug in the bug
>> tracker is the best place to report a bug.
>
> *cough*
>
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php? 
> func=detail&aid=8470&group_id=126&atid=575
>
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php? 
> func=detail&aid=9346&group_id=126&atid=575
>
> Submitted in February and March respectively.  Both still unassigned.

Par for the course for an all-volunteer project.

Bugs get fixed fastest when the party most-interested in the fix  
writes the fix.  (The primary developers can sometimes be bribed, but  
sometimes they have other things to do.)

--
Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The  
best
workers get their tools to do the work for them. -- Syndicate Wars