Hi guys, Now that the vacations are behind us (well, behind me at least :)), it's time to focus on converging MacRuby for its first stable release, 1.0. My goal is to release it somewhere in 2011 (the sooner the better :)). In order to smoothly achieve that goal, it's also time to accelerate the current release system and improve the way we classify and address incoming bugs reports. After talking with the others committers we decided on the following: 1) Much more frequent releases Starting from now we will release more frequently. Until we reach 1.0, releases will mostly contain bug fixes and improvements, and practically no feature. As a matter of fact, I intend to release trunk as 0.8 next week. By releasing MacRuby more frequently we hope people will also test MacRuby more frequently, and report more bugs. 2) Better bug management We have too many bugs registered in the tracker, and it's a pain to manage all of them. Starting from now, we will classify all existing bugs as well as incoming ones in two categories: for 1.0 and for later. We will then only focus on bugs for 1.0. The second step is to reduce the problem into a small test case (if applicable) then attach the #reduction keyword. Once bugs are properly reduced, we can fix them more easily. We intend to attach a keyword to bugs that seem to be easy to fix, this way new comers can help and learn how MacRuby works. 3) Bug smash days We will organize bug smash days. They will happen on an IRC channel (details forthcoming). The first one will happen this saturday, 6th December. We will have people from 3 different time zones (US west coast, Europe and Japan) on the IRC channel, and our first task will be to start managing all the bugs, using the method described above. New comers are greatly welcomed and we will make sure everyone who wants to help can help. 4) Compatibility support page The big challenge for MacRuby 1.0 is to have excellent Ruby compatibility. We currently have 2 metrics to test our Ruby compatibility: RubySpec and Rails. However it's not enough, there are lots of Ruby libraries and C extensions around that we can't afford to test by ourselves. Therefore, we intend to prepare a webpage on the website that lists Ruby libraries that are known to work with MacRuby, and those who don't run yet. We will make sure the community can easily update that page. Having an updated list of libraries that we should run should help the team fixing compatibility bugs. That's all for now, bug if you have any suggestion on how to improve the current development process, please let us know. Laurent