[MacRuby-devel] converging for 1.0

[Travis Kay]

This all sounds excellent =)

Travis

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Laurent Sansonetti
<lsansonetti at apple.com> wrote:
> 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
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