[DC22] Ruby team BoF notes

[Lucas Kanashiro <kanashiro@debian.org>]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for those who attended our BoF last week, below is a copy&paste of the notes we took on the etherpad to also keep a record here in our mailing list:

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# Ruby team BoF

## Agenda

- Team statistics

  + http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-ruby.png

  + http://blends.debian.net/liststats/bugs_pkg-ruby.png

  + http://blends.debian.net/liststats/commitstat_ruby-team.png

  + http://blends.debian.net/liststats/maintainer_per_package_ruby-team.png

  + http://blends.debian.net/liststats/uploaders_pkg-ruby.png

  + http://blends.debian.net/liststats/wnpp_pkg-ruby.png

- Ruby 3.1 transition

   + Could it start in unstable after 25 August (Debian import freeze in Ubuntu)?

   + Useful changelog https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/3.1.html

   + Rebuild of reverse dependencies

       - https://people.debian.org/~kanashiro/ruby3.1/

       - Only 33 build failures \o/ reasonably low number of failures

         several of them are related to the fact that Psych now uses safe_load behavior for load, and the class Gem::specification is not allowed to be parsed with psych by gem2deb.

         

                   /usr/bin/ruby3.1 /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/extension_builder.rb /<<PKGBUILDDIR>> debian/ruby-fusefs

•        /usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/psych/class_loader.rb:99:in `find': Tried to load unspecified class: Gem::Specification (Psych::DisallowedClass)

         These are for packages having a metadata.yml file and a binary extension. The fix should go in gem2deb for that

•     - TODO: document how to the mass rebuilds and do the bug filing

- NEW in gem2deb 2.0

• - cross building support

• - debhelper-compat support

• - build, test and install as separate debian/rules targets for debhelper-compat 14

- Praveen will be doing less work on ruby packages due to the termination of the Gitlab financial support

  - rails will be affected

  - security team not happy about the state of rails in stable

  - opencollective.com/debian-gitlab

  - need to get the right people to pitch in there

- RuboCop::Packaging update! \o/

• - https://github.com/utkarsh2102/rubocop-packaging/

• - https://rubygems.org/gems/rubocop-packaging

- Next sprint ?

• - initial target: Jan 2023 (adjacent to FOSDEM if FOSDEM happens)

- Sponsoring work

- Goals for the next release ?

  - ruby3.1

  - rails 6.1.4 -> 6.1.6 (or latest 6.x release by November or so)

    - not rails 7 for bookworm

- Briefly look at bugs

  There are a certain number of patterns:

      - omniauth related bugs

      - coffeescript related bugs (nanoc, ruby-hamlit, ruby-sprocket,...)

      - bugs with errors:  FTBFS: installing symlink 'XXX' pointing to parent path /usr/share/_javascript_/XXX of /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/ruby-jquery-atwho-rails/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/XXX is not allowed

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-- 
Lucas Kanashiro