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Re: DebConf19 Ruby Team BoF



On 13/05/2019 19:12, Lucas Kanashiro wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On 5/12/19 9:01 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
>> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 11:46:38AM -0300, Lucas Kanashiro wrote:
>>> * Who will come to Brazil to attend DebConf? Would you like to
>>> participate in this BoF?

I am in.

>> I will be around, and most likely will participate in the BoF.  Since I
>> am heavily involved in the DebConf organization, however, I will most
>> probably not be able to be involved in planning discussion topics, etc.
> 
> I can help Utkarsh with this. I proposed on our IRC channel some general
> statistics (number of contributors in the last year, number of commits,
> number of uploads, number of reported and closed bugs, and so on) to be
> presented to the team which can help us to understand how well we are
> doing at the moment and try to improve based on them. For instance we
> might see if anyone is overloaded and if we are being able to attract
> new contributors.
> 
> Another topic would be the next ruby interpreter transition (ruby 2.7
> should be released by the end of this year). Do we want to plan a sprint
> for the next year as we did for ruby 2.5 transition?
> 
> We also should discuss and try to find a way to avoid rush when a Debian
> release approaches, we need to have a roadmap for the next development
> cycle. For example this year we got rails 5 available in Buster in the
> last minute and not surprisingly we didn't have enough time to get all
> the rails apps accepted in time for the Buster release. We need to avoid
> that for the Bullseye release.

For the rails6 transition in Debian, a GSoC project is accepted (this
project is under rubygems.org). Jongmin Kim is working on this and I am
mentoring. Kim will be sending a detailed mail about the plan in a
couple of days.

>> I will leave you with this, though: I am willing/looking forward to
>> mentor whoever wants to help with the maintainance of the Ruby toolchain
>> (https://tracker.debian.org/teams/ruby-toolchain/) and eventually take
>> the lead in it at some point. I will be happy to discuss this at the
>> BoF, or by email.
> 
> I already offered myself in the past to help you on that but
> unfortunately things went on and I didn't make it. Let's try to move
> forward this time :)
> 
> Cheers!
> 

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