From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2009-02-27T07:17:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Letter writing campaign to Jim

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Aaron Turner <synfinatic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Aaron Patterson
> <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 05:49:08AM +0900, Aaron Turner wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Gregory Brown
>>> <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Aaron Patterson
>>> > <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> It's time to take action by writing Jim, telling him how much you love
>>> >> and use rake, and asking him to kindly release a new version!  I've
>>> >> already <strike>forced</strike> asked everyone at Seattle.rb to send Jim
>>> >> letters, but that isn't enough.  I need your help!
>>> >
>>> > Hahahaha, that's awesome.
>>> >
>>> > Letters are nice, but have you sent him a patch?
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Save a tree.  Write code.  It's ruby, not rocket science.
>>
>> Jim has already fixed the problem.  It just isn't released yet:
>>
>>  http://github.com/jimweirich/rake/commit/dd9c844defd723ab541d5c86ff0465c9dcf7047f#comment_15642
>
>
> Wait.. this is all about FIVE LINES of code (really, 4 lines + 1
> comment) and it's already committed to github?
>
> *facepalm*
>
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> Aaron Turner
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>
>

I don't see what's so /facepalm about this. We need a new official
release. Or do you intend to have *everyone* reinstall rake via a gem
built from someone's fork on Github? I'd much prefer to simply upgrade
my current gem.

Jason