[DRE-maint] Call for review: new version of "Position on rubygems"

Esteban Manchado Velázquez emanchado at demiurgo.org
Sun Feb 22 21:54:11 UTC 2009


Hi!

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:18:44 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum  
<lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I attended a RubyCamp yesterday, which gave a very positive attitude of
> the Ruby community (at least the local one, of course :P).
>
> I discussed the rubygems issue with them, and I think it basically
> boils down to a lack of information on our side. I've tried to rework
> the "Position on rubygems" page, matching how I explained the issue
> during the RubyCamp.

    Which lack of information on our side BTW? I always saw the Rubygems  
issue as "Rubygems are source-intrusive and hostile to repackaging", and  
that is kept on the updated position.

> Links:
> - New pages:
> http://blop.info/pub/rubygems.html
> http://blop.info/pub/upstream-devs.html
> - Old pages:
> http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html
> http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/upstream-devs.html

    I'm not doing any work on Ruby packaging right now, so in a sense I'm  
not a member of the group anymore, but the new pages look good to me :-)  
Thanks a lot for your work!

-- 
Esteban Manchado Velázquez <zoso at demiurgo.org>



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