Re: [tlug] Precheck of open source Ruby projects

["Zev Blut" <zb@example.com>]

On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:43:49 +0900, Al Hoang <hoanga@example.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:10:37PM +0900, Zev Blut wrote:
> > Hello TLUGers,
> >
> > I have a few projects written in Ruby that are open sourced and hosted
> > on Rubyforge.  This is the first release for them and all the software
> 	Wow very cool.

Thanks :-)

> > is done and should work, but as usual they could stand to have better
> [snip]
> > software to the Ruby lists sometime next week.  If any of you are
> > interested I would appreciate any comments or suggestions of what I
> > can improve before making an announcement.
>
> 	Is your project generating rdoc-ified API documentation?

At the moment, maybe only RedNails would make somewhat nice rdocs...

> 	After that, I'd imagine some useful things (and probably
> time consuming) to do might be:
> 1. Examine rubyforge for other tools that do a similar function and
>    provide a comparison on why your tool is more appropriate

Yeah, that is something I want to do for rednails in particular.
Good reminder.

> 2. Fill out meta-data in the project summary for the Trove Software map
>    (One thing I find usefu meta-data is whether the library is a pure
>     ruby implementation or uses some C or something else)

Ah, rednails is missing that thanks!

> 3. What is 1.0 supposed to do?  (I notice lots of OSS projects don't
>    put down what a 1.0 release is supposed to do so maybe this isn't
>    an issue but it's always nice to know what the author has in mind
>    for the future of the project)

Actually, these are all 1.0 in that they have been in production use
for over a year now.  I just want the docs and install issues to be
rounded out for users other than myself.

Thanks for the comments!
Zev