From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T09:22:54+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond"
>     on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:13:05 +0900, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zznmeb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> |1. Would there be a chance of merging the efficiencies of Ruby
> |Enterprise Edition, especially copy-on-write friendliness, into the
> |"Engine Yard 1.8.6 stack?"
> 
> No please.  Any new technology for 1.8 should merged in HEAD first,
> then merged back into 1.8.6 if appropriate.  I am not going to allow
> EngineYard to fork off 1.8.6.  If people from EngineYard want to
> improve 1.8, it's OK.  We are open.  I will give them commit privilege
> even.  But no fork.

Agreed here...1.8.6 should become more stable, and all changes should 
filter down throught the 1_8 branch on ruby-lang. 1.8.6 should *not* 
start to incorporate fixes/enhancements that are not in the other 1_8 
versions.

- Charlie