From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T13:02:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyForge.org


On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 11:45  PM, Daniel Carrera wrote:

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>> I want to announce that we (InfoEther) have stood up a community 
>> server
>> for Ruby projects here:
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>>     http://www.rubyforge.org
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> That's really cool!
> I'm very glad to see something like that happening.  It does give Ruby
> something special other than what CPAN or RAA are.
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> You know what might be cool? (and this is just a thought) if RubyForge
> also were to repreent something like RAA.  That its, give a good 
> interface
> for people to find and access projects.

We could add links to important Ruby sites (ruby-lang, RubyGarden, RAA 
etc).  RAA is a project metadata repository, and RubyForge is a project 
repository...two distinct things...but we will want to work closely 
with RAA (perhaps updating RAA automagically when you do a release on 
RubyForge for example).

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>> PS. Oh, and please no "Hey, GForge is written substantially in PHP!"
>> jokes.  If you want to start the RubyForge project to rewrite GForge 
>> in
>> Ruby, please do so ;-)
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> Could have been worse.  It could have been Perl!!

Me thinks there is perl in there...and python...ug...but hey, its a 
tool!

-rich