Debian/Ruby Extras - Home
Welcome to the Debian/Ruby Extras Site
The Debian/Ruby Extras team currently has two goals:- Creating and maintaining a
libruby-extraspackage that bundles small but useful libraries that could have been in stdlib but aren’t. - Make a team effort of packaging a lot of useful Ruby libraries (not all
necessarily part of
libruby-extras) and applications to improve quality and maintenance.
For more information about this project, see the Alioth project page and the mailing list. For general Debian/Ruby information, see the main Debian Ruby mailing list.
News
2008.04.08 – QA Report
We have set up the Debian QA report page, developed by the Debian Perl Group, to keep track of the status of our packages in the archive, in SVN, in NEW, upstream, etc. You can see our QA report here.
We also welcomed three new members to our team, namely: Maxim Komar, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen, and Leandro Nunes dos Santos. Welcome!
2007.10.06 – Meeting minutes
A few weeks after the actual Debian/Ruby Extras meeting took place on Debconf 7, the minutes have become available containing many future action points for the team. paulvt
2007.01.02 – A new year
The team wishes everyone a happy and good new year!
With the primary goals reached the team will focus on the next release, Lenny. It will encompass Ruby policy changes, so more consistancey, more libraries and applications under team maintenance. Just before the new year started, the team received two new team members: Florian Ragwitz and Gunnar Wolf. Welcome! paulvt
2006.11.20 – Goals reached!
As of yesterday Debian Sid (and hopefully soon Etch too) contains the
libruby-extras meta-package. Also I can say that a lot of Ruby libraries
and applications, 42 at the moment and counting, are now maintained
succesfully by the team. I am proud that we were able to meet both goals
in just over a year and hope we can continue pursuing improvements in
quality and consistency in the future. paulvt
2006.11.09 – Meta-package created, new members
Because the freeze before the Etch is near, the team has been working to
finish some of the todo
items that I
have set for myself for the Etch release. A lot of work-in-progress
packages have been uploaded and some initial version of the
libruby-extras package has been created and will be uploaded to Sid soon.
Meanwhile, Patrick Ringl has joined the team to work on libinline-ruby
and ruby-yarv, a prospective version of Ruby. Filipe Lautert also has
joined the team very recently and took on the maintenance of libxml-ruby
and libxslt-ruby which have been in an orphaned state for quite some time
now. Welcome to the team! paulvt
2006.07.03 – ruby-pkg-tools 0.10, more new members
Yet more new members have joined our team: Rudi Cilibrasi, Vincent Fourmond and Sjoerd Simons. For now, Sjoerd will work solely on Ruby/GStreamer0.10, while Vincent will bring us Tioga, SciYAG and mkmf2 and Rudi will work on Ruby SVM and Complearn.
A week ago ruby-pkg-tools 0.10 has been uploaded which fixes several
small issues. With this upload support of the “upstream sources” file has
been dropped and upstream sources should be retrieved via the
debian/watch files (required to be) included in all packages. paulvt
2006.03.22 – ruby-pkg-tools 0.8, new member
A new version of the Ruby Package Tools has been uploaded today. This upload will cause some changes in the way of packaging and usage of the tools. Read more about it in this email.
Next to this upload has Ari Pollak joined our team and added rcov to our list of packaged tools and libraries. Other new packages that have been added in the past three months are: libgpgme-ruby, librmagick-ruby, liblog4r-ruby, libgnuplot-ruby, feed2imap, libjson-ruby, and libcairo-ruby. paulvt
2006.01.01 – New member, dh_rdoc
A new member has been added to our team: Thierry Reding. Welcome!
Meanwhile, Esteban Manchado Velázquez started working on the development
of dh_rdoc. paulvt
2005.11.02 – New team members
Recently a lot of people have joined our team. The following Debian-developers-to-be are reinforcing us: Daigo Moriwaki, Lucas Nussbaum and Arnaud Cornet. We hope that as a team we can make a difference soon in the area of Ruby library and application packaging. Stay tuned… paulvt
2005.09.27 – Adding libxml-ruby and libxslt-ruby
Due to a recent request for adoption on libxml-ruby and libxslt-ruby, I
have decided to adopt both libraries and bring it to pkg-ruby-extras
This will, hopefully, speed up a bit the presence of a second source
package by the team, following the previous ruby-pkg-tools package
already in the archive. damog
2005.09.03 – Integrated Wiki
I have added Kwiki to the webpage setup and it is integrated in this page through page specific WikiLinks. paulvt
2005.09.01 – ruby-pkg-tools accepted in the archive
The ruby-pkg-tools package (version 0.1) got accepted and thus through
the new queue yesterday night. This means that ruby-pkg-tools will be
available in sid this evening and Ruby packages can start to use
it. paulvt
2005.08.29 – First website attempt
I’ve put online a first version of the website of the Debian/Ruby Extras team. The source files will soon arrive in Subversion, so that everyone can adapt and add stuff. paulvt