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by sandal 15y ago
You missed the point. It's not about seniority at all. It's about knowledge of a very complex system. I don't want to see that fly out the window so that we can spend another couple years learning what Eric has. Rescue projects suck, and th
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by sandal 15y ago
As a mediator, I never intended to cast myself as non-biased about SlimGems. I started my involvement by specifically calling SlimGems a really bad idea, and I still stand by that point. Here's my first post: http://blog.majesticseacreatur
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by sandal 15y ago
To qualify my friendship with Ryan and Eric, it consists of meeting them at conferences once in a while and having some positive conversations with them. That said, I am absolutely biased here, I like them despite their flaws in the way the
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by sandal 15y ago
James makes a great appeal for Loren in this post, and there's no denying that SlimGems has made us all think, and brought many interesting issues to light. However, it's hard to realistically expect one to go from being the maintainer of a
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Looking for RubyGems 1.8.5 Breakage(blog.majesticseacreature.com)
13 points by sandal 15y ago|0 comments
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by sandal 15y ago
What Bundler does is run CI against RubyGems so they get automatically notified of issues. It seems like Rails should possibly consider doing that as well. However, there seems like there will be more communications between Rails<->
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by sandal 15y ago
There have been personal conflicts abound in this drama around RubyGems, and that's a big part of the problem. The solution that I've come up with in my talks with the RubyGems maintainers is that anyone who feels that they can't work with
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by sandal 15y ago
I agree, in fact, it's not even a problem that isn't already being worked on. Here are the new release policies from the RubyGems team: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/establishing-release-man...
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by sandal 15y ago
Before you make a decision for or against SlimGems, please be sure to check out my series on RubyGems, in particular note the following things that happened in the last week: * RubyGems now promises to stay API compatible with whatever vers
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by sandal 15y ago
Ninja and hacker are two very different words, hacker actually has some rich history and meaning to it. But it's true that it hardly means anything without a whole lot of context now that it seems to just mean 'programmer who doesn't wear a
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by sandal 15y ago
The Debian situation has always seemed a bit unreasonable to me because RubyGems is designed to be a tool for Rubyists, not sysadmins. The overhead of doing operating system level integration to respect various package systems and the way t
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by sandal 15y ago
There are certain parts of Bundler that can (and perhaps should) be merged into RubyGems. Now is not the time to work on that, but after Ruby 1.9.3 is out, consider raising this question with Evan, as there is some potential there.
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Establishing release management policies for RubyGems(blog.majesticseacreature.com)
23 points by sandal 15y ago|6 comments
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by sandal 15y ago
Unless this is something that has been known to be ignored or rejected otherwise, or unless you feel you can't approach them, I'd just recommend filing a support request or asking on the rubygems-developers mailing list or #rubygems on Free
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by sandal 15y ago
The --no-rodc --no-ri issue is one I want to reopen for discussion at some point, but I don't think it's as important as many of the other issues that need to be discussed, nor is it urgent. I agree with you that like many other things, thi
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by sandal 15y ago
Here's how you (and others) can reach me to share your thoughts: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/mending-the-rubygems-fen...
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by sandal 15y ago
This is exactly the sort of unhelpful comment that is making the situation worse, not better. There has been a lot of discussion about why RubyGems doesn't support this, and perhaps that discussion got lost in the circus of +1's and tension
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RubyGems is not a Battlefield, Part I (5/25 meeting w. Eric+Ryan) (blog.majesticseacreature.com)
41 points by sandal 15y ago|12 comments
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by sandal 15y ago
This is not actually a dead link, but posterous is intermittently 404ing sometimes. Reload a couple times if that happens, sorry. :-/
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Mending the RubyGems Fences(blog.majesticseacreature.com)
13 points by sandal 15y ago|2 comments
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by sandal 15y ago
It really depends on what projects and groups of people you're interacting with. We have a wonderful community around Ruby Mendicant University, but it's because the folks there really care about teaching and learning as a primary goal, so
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by sandal 15y ago
You're absolutely right. And to clarify, my article is not in any way meant to claim that the way that the RubyGems maintainers are acting is justified. Instead, I'm just trying to make the point that their experience with end users is not
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by sandal 15y ago
That was a long time ago.
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by sandal 15y ago
That's true (I'm actually working on an ebook generation library that does PDF, ePUB, and MOBI), but most books that most people will read on the Kindle do have that DRM. That's what I meant by DRM restrictions on the Kindle. If it sounded
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by sandal 15y ago
PDF is an ISO standard. The issue is more the DRM restrictions on the Kindle than it is the MOBI format itself.
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by sandal 15y ago
I dug around for a while looking for this as well, since it was absent from the main announcement. But the ordering page for both books allows you to download a PDF immediately, without charge. It looks like Free as in Freedom 2.0 is under
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Ruby Mendicant: Progress Report 1(blog.majesticseacreature.com)
2 points by sandal 15y ago|0 comments
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by sandal 15y ago
Once we get a non-profit set up there will certainly be that option for support RbMU at least. But if you do want to make a one time payment, here you go: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13580 (The campaign is for RbMU but it all goes to the
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by sandal 15y ago
As an occasional Go player, I mainly clicked through to see if the very first comment on the page would be someone mentioning that Go is a better choice than chess. The internets do not disappoint, regardless of whether that's a true statem
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by sandal 16y ago
For short puzzles, you can try out our newly launched site puzzlenode: http://puzzlenode.com/ | Only 4 problems there now but there will be at least 4 new ones added every two months, hopefully much more often than that. These problems al

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