From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2011-01-06T04:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Petition to add Metasploit Project as Ruby success story

On Jan 5, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Christian Kirsch wrote:

> Hi James, 
> 
> Thanks for the response. I had tried contacting the webmaster several times but didn't hear back.

I apologize.  Myself, and others, should have received those messages.  I'm not sure why we didn't.

> Would you be able to help me with this or can you put me in contact with someone?

I can add Metasploit to the Ruby site, yes.

> Would you prefer me to take this conversation off-line or continue on the other mailing list?

I think it's fine if we discuss it here.  I'm definitely interested in the opinions of others.

> 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.

That seems OK to me.

Do you want to hyperlink things like Metasploit and Rapid7?  Let me have a version in Textile with the proper linking, please.

James Edward Gray II