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Announcing the Ruby Programming Shop (RPS)
It's no secret that there is a lot of Ruby code out there that needs
to be cleaned
up (it's old, untested, undocumented, and maybe even abandoned). The RPS
povides a way to 'rescue' that code and make it shine. We'll limit
ourselves to
free software, and will contact the original author (when possible) to
get his/her
blessing.
There are a lot of Ruby-nubies out there (and more every day). They (and we)
could all use the opportunity to sit down with a veteran Ruby programmer, to
learn 'the Ruby way'. The RPS will give them the opprtunity to do just that.
We'll pick one library to work on for two months at a time, this will
a project.
One person (or a Ruby Brigade) will take charge of coordinating each project.
Every project will be split into 4-5 two week iterations. Each iteration will
conclude with a release to the community of the work done so far. Each
project will conclude with a final release of the project back to the original
maintainer (should one exist) or to a new maintainer (if the library was
abandoned).
Please join us at our wiki:
http://therps.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl
and on our mailing list:
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/therps-discuss/
Right now, we need to flesh out our list of libraries to work on, and select a
library for May/June. Come on in, sit down, and help make Ruby shine!
It's no secret that there is a lot of Ruby code out there that needs
to be cleaned
up (it's old, untested, undocumented, and maybe even abandoned). The RPS
povides a way to 'rescue' that code and make it shine. We'll limit
ourselves to
free software, and will contact the original author (when possible) to
get his/her
blessing.
There are a lot of Ruby-nubies out there (and more every day). They (and we)
could all use the opportunity to sit down with a veteran Ruby programmer, to
learn 'the Ruby way'. The RPS will give them the opprtunity to do just that.
We'll pick one library to work on for two months at a time, this will
a project.
One person (or a Ruby Brigade) will take charge of coordinating each project.
Every project will be split into 4-5 two week iterations. Each iteration will
conclude with a release to the community of the work done so far. Each
project will conclude with a final release of the project back to the original
maintainer (should one exist) or to a new maintainer (if the library was
abandoned).
Please join us at our wiki:
http://therps.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl
and on our mailing list:
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/therps-discuss/
Right now, we need to flesh out our list of libraries to work on, and select a
library for May/June. Come on in, sit down, and help make Ruby shine!