From: Christian Kirsch Date: 2011-01-06T03:06:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Petition to add Metasploit Project as Ruby success story Hi James, Thanks for the response. I had tried contacting the webmaster several times but didn't hear back. Would you be able to help me with this or can you put me in contact with someone? Would you prefer me to take this conversation off-line or continue on the other mailing list? Apologies for the confusion with "largest project". In my head, I wasn't making the claim that the project is the largest on the basis of downloads (I didn't know the stats for RoR), but I can see that I phrased it poorly. What do you think of this alternative wording: The Metasploit Framework, developed by Rapid7, is an open-source penetration testing software that helps IT professionals assess the security of their networks and applications. The Metasploit Project consists of over 700,000 lines of code and has been downloaded over a million times in the past year. The commercial editions Metasploit Express and Metasploit Pro from Rapid7 are also based on Ruby. Thanks! Chris -----Original Message----- From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:james@graysoftinc.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:40 PM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: Petition to add Metasploit Project as Ruby success story On Jan 5, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Christian Kirsch wrote: > Can someone please recommend whom to contact for updates to the Ruby website? I'm referring to page > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/success-stories/ The VIT Core mailing list usually handles these discussions. The webmaster email link at the bottom of each page sends messages there. > I propose listing this project in the new section "Security" as follows: > > The Metasploit Framework, developed by Rapid7, is an open-source penetration testing software that helps IT professionals assess the security of their networks and applications. It is the world's largest Ruby project with over 700,000 lines of code and over a million unique downloads and updates in the past year. The commercial editions Metasploit Express and Metasploit Pro from Rapid7 are also based on Ruby. I don't see any reason we couldn't list it. My one comment though is that I don't like calling it "the world's largest Ruby project." There are multiple ways to measure that, of course. I realize that you name two: lines of code (which I'm not convinced is an advantage) and downloads. I'm doubting your claim on the downloads entirely, since rubygems.org lists over 2 million downloads for Rails: http://rubygems.org/gems/rails If we can dump the my-framework-can-whip-your-framework aspects, and just talk about why Metasploit is cool, I'm fine with putting it up. James Edward Gray II