From: Leonard Chin <l.g.chin@...>
Date: 2007-12-28T13:43:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Purpose of Ruby 1.9?

Hi

On Dec 27, 2007 5:50 AM, Radosław Bułat <radek.bulat@gmail.com> wrote:
> My question is generally to Matz, Ko1 or other Ruby core maintainers.
> We have Ruby 1.9 already released. Matz says that it's not stable as
> he expected, so it requires some work to become stable. But what
> intentions are for Ruby 1.9.x?

Here's a quick translation of the relevant parts of a mail from matz
to ruby-dev that are kind of relevant to this question.

reference: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/32794

=begin translation
For now, we'll focus on improving 1.9. Bugs are certain to be found,
and there is still lots to do. So, I don't think there is any need to
create a 1.9 branch for now. Even if we do branch, we'll have to apply
fixes to both (trunk and branch), which is a doubling of required
effort, so just tagging should be sufficient.

Here's a possible plan for the next step:

 * Release 1.9.1 sometime during the first half of 2008 (decide later
- perhaps April?)
 * In order to drive development, make intermediate releases regularly
with short (one month?) intervals with the version fixed at 1.9.0
(releases every 29th?)
 * Prepare documentation for migrating from 1.8 to 1.9 in parallel

What do you think?

= end

# Disclaimer: this is just a translation of part of a single mail from
matz in a thread of discussion. It is not an announcement.