From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-08-24T08:44:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Why, oh why, _why?

On Friday 21 August 2009 09:37:17 am Ben Giddings wrote:

> Destroy it?  Didn't he just make it unavailable?  And it wasn't as if
> what he took away was the community's documentation of Ruby, just his
> own projects to which other people had contributed.

Best not to trivialize those contributions. Not to mention the things built on 
top of them... I admit, when I heard about this, my first reaction was a sigh 
of relief that Mechanize is built on Nokogiri now.

> Considering all the good he did for Ruby over the years, all for free,
> I don't think anybody should be overly critical of an abrupt departure.

I can cut him, the person, some slack for that.

But, it doesn't negate what the departure did. How much effort would it have 
been to post some amount of warning, at least, rather than forcing us to 
mirror everything after the fact?