From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-29T08:19:00+09:00
Subject: Cardinal - project looking for a leader

A few weeks back I proposed the Cardinal project - basically a project to 
create a Ruby frontend for Parrot.  I really think this is a critical 
project for the future of Ruby.  My plan was to get my other projects into 
a state where I could leave them for a while and work on Cardinal starting 
in early February...

However, after releasing the latest version of TaskMaster last week, I've 
been talking to some folks involved in areas like Linux Clusters and 
software testing and the feedback I'm getting is that with a bit of 
improvment and a lot of added docs and examples TaskMaster could become 
really useful in those niches (and it could even lead to some consulting 
gigs - it would be nice to make a bit of money again ;-)  So, my plan now 
is to focus on improving and documenting TaskMaster for the next few 
months because in the short term I think I can have a greater impact 
there than if I move on to working on Cardinal.

So, that leaves Cardinal 'leaderless'.  Would anyone out there be willing 
to startup Cardinal (get a page on Sourceforge or Savannah)?  It really is 
an important project for the Ruby community.

Phil