From: "John Lam (CLR)" <jflam@...>
Date: 2007-07-31T07:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Groklaw says "Watch out, Ruby!"

> I'm sure you're right, I can't see many technical reasons not to use the
> standard implementation.  However, John Lam is specifically asking for
> contributions to the IronRuby stdlib.  I don't know what assignments
> you'd have to make to get them accepted, and I haven't seen it discussed
> anywhere.  John, are you reading?  Can you give us a steer on this?

There are quite a few stdlib libraries that are implemented in C - those are the ones that we need help with. We're making good progress on the built-in types (another dev on our team just checked in a nearly complete implementation for Hash yesterday).

As for assignments, we will have a standard contributor agreement that will assert that you have the legal right to contribute the code that you are submitting, as well as a copyright assignment. This is a very standard process in open source projects (see Apache's contributor agreement here: http://apache.org/licenses/icla.txt).

Thanks,
-John