From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2009-05-19T05:38:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Introducing RubyScience on GitHub!

On May 18, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Cameron McBride wrote:

> btw, there is already a rubyforge project (sciruby) that I started
> with similar ambitions.  Initially, it's intention was just to provide
> a separate "science centric" list for ruby discussions to augment Ara
> Howard's sciruby wiki (which seem to have evaporated).   The list
> still exists, albeit the traffic is *very* light.   I encourage any
> interested party to sign up!
>
> In any case, it could easily be the connective bit to provide the
> "distribution" gems.  Or to officially house anyone's original code
> they don't want to publish separately.    Other suggestions are quite
> welcome.

That sounds like a great idea. Probably the first thing I'm going to  
do is figure out some simple rake tasks to add new libraries/projects  
and wrangle the indexes in interesting and useful ways. As I mentioned  
in the announcement, the idea is not for this to be a project in its  
own right, but rather to serve as a gathering place for other  
projects. In keeping with the tradition that github is for "in  
development" and rubyforge is for "released to public", I think the  
sciruby project on rubyforge would be a perfect place to put gem(s)  
and hold discussion. In fact, since GitHub doesn't provide for mailing  
lists, I've added a link to the sciruby project on the RubyScience  
wiki (and I'll update the README shortly).

Cheers,

Josh