Development seems to have slowed to a crawl, as has the mailing list activity. Has RubyMotion has sucked all the oxygen away from MacRuby? Or perhaps the main contributors are just busy right now? Can anyone share some insight?
Hi Jim, I can only speak for myself, but moving (to another continent even), starting a new job, and having a new baby would, I think, qualify as busy! ;-) Admittedly the mailing list activity has dropped off a bit, but I do still and try to monitor #macruby on Freenode and the GitHub project has a decent amount of activity. One would hope that the other reason activity has dropped off is that people are having fewer issues with MacRuby. Now, that may be wishful thinking, but if there is something in particular you are concerned about I think we'd be more than happy to hear about it and discuss what could be done. Cheers, Josh On Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Jim Getzen wrote:
Development seems to have slowed to a crawl, as has the mailing list activity.
Has RubyMotion has sucked all the oxygen away from MacRuby? Or perhaps the main contributors are just busy right now?
Can anyone share some insight? _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org (mailto:MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org) http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel
Josh, The recent Github activity is nice to see, and your point about MacRuby being fairly mature is well-taken. When I saw that Watson joined the RubyMotion team, saw the commits slow down, and noticed the lack of mailing list activity (especially compared to the RubyMotion Google group activity), I got a little worried. I'm putting a fair amount of time into some MacRuby projects, I love it, and I want to see it thrive. Aside from that broad concern, I have experienced only one particular issue, for which I filed a bug report (#137). It's no biggie, and I certainly don't expect anybody to jump on it, since it's pretty low in priority. Hopefully, we will see some of the RM code (such as the memory management model) make it back into the MR code. Jim On Sep 28, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Jim, I can only speak for myself, but moving (to another continent even), starting a new job, and having a new baby would, I think, qualify as busy! ;-) Admittedly the mailing list activity has dropped off a bit, but I do still and try to monitor #macruby on Freenode and the GitHub project has a decent amount of activity. One would hope that the other reason activity has dropped off is that people are having fewer issues with MacRuby. Now, that may be wishful thinking, but if there is something in particular you are concerned about I think we'd be more than happy to hear about it and discuss what could be done. Cheers, Josh On Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Jim Getzen wrote:
Development seems to have slowed to a crawl, as has the mailing list activity.
Has RubyMotion has sucked all the oxygen away from MacRuby? Or perhaps the main contributors are just busy right now?
Can anyone share some insight? _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel
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On Sep 28, 2012, at 11:42, Jim Getzen wrote:
Hopefully, we will see some of the RM code (such as the memory management model) make it back into the MR code.
I'd love to see a cooperative and friendly relationship grow between the MR and RM communities, but I'm not sure that this will flower without a bit of gardening. Based on their previous contributions, my expectation is that the RM folks will be inclined towards sharing. However, they may not be able to justify the time and effort of porting code. So, it might be appropriate for folks in the MR community to reach out, offering help in porting and/or sponsorship of particular technologies, use cases, etc. Basically, if any of you have (or know about) a funded project that depends on MR, you have the means and motivation to promote its development. -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Software system design, development, and documentation
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