[#45382] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6530][Open] Improve Racc documentation coverage — "zzak (Zachary Scott)" <zachary@...>
5 messages
2012/06/02
[#45431] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6548][Open] Rake doesn't ignore arguments after -- — "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" <rr.rosas@...>
12 messages
2012/06/05
[#45442] 1.8.7 to come this month — Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Hello. As I wrote before I will release a 1.8.7 patchlevel in this month.
5 messages
2012/06/06
[#45474] [ANN] Request for "slide-show" of your feature proposal — Yusuke Endoh <mame@...>
(Japanese later; 日本語が後にあります)
18 messages
2012/06/07
[#45483] Re: [ANN] Request for "slide-show" of your feature proposal
— Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas <rr.rosas@...>
2012/06/07
Is this what you were talking about?
[#46009] Re: [ANN] Request for "slide-show" of your feature proposal
— Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
2012/06/30
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 11:59:12PM +0900, Yusuke Endoh wrote:
[#46332] Re: [ANN] Request for "slide-show" of your feature proposal
— Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
2012/07/11
> * at most THREE proposals per person
[#45552] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6571][Assigned] Time.mktime Y2K38 problem on 1.9.3p125 i386-mingw32 — "MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet)" <Martin.Bosslet@...>
10 messages
2012/06/10
[#45563] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6573][Open] Webrick test failures — "bkabrda (Bohuslav Kabrda)" <bkabrda@...>
19 messages
2012/06/11
[#45589] Developers' meeting (7/21) — Yusuke Endoh <mame@...>
Hello, committers
10 messages
2012/06/12
[#45623] Re: Developers' meeting (7/21)
— Yusuke Endoh <mame@...>
2012/06/13
Four seats are now left.
[#45647] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6592][Open] test_call_double(DL::TestDL) fails on ARM HardFP — "vo.x (Vit Ondruch)" <v.ondruch@...>
15 messages
2012/06/14
[#45664] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6596][Open] New method for Arrays : Array#index — "robin850 (Robin Dupret)" <robin.dupret@...>
20 messages
2012/06/15
[#45694] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6602][Open] Tail call optimization: enable by default? — "ko1 (Koichi Sasada)" <redmine@...>
12 messages
2012/06/18
[#45715] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6609][Open] Toplevel as self extended module — "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>
17 messages
2012/06/19
[#45732] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6614][Open] GC doesn't collect objects bound to (collectable) proc — "rogerdpack (Roger Pack)" <rogerpack2005@...>
9 messages
2012/06/20
[#45735] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6616][Open] MinGW: cannot build extensions or run tests due changes in exec_arg? — "luislavena (Luis Lavena)" <luislavena@...>
9 messages
2012/06/21
[#45749] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6616] MinGW: cannot build extensions or run tests due changes in exec_arg?
— "phasis68 (Heesob Park)" <phasis@...>
2012/06/21
[#45785] How can I contribute? — David Albert <davidbalbert@...>
Hello ruby-core,
6 messages
2012/06/22
[#45798] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6634][Open] Deadlock with join and ConditionVariable — "meh. (meh. I don't care)" <meh@...>
20 messages
2012/06/23
[#45805] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6636][Open] Enumerable#size — "marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)" <ruby-core@...>
15 messages
2012/06/23
[#45822] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6641][Open] Hash.auto constructor — "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>
9 messages
2012/06/25
[#45864] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6647][Open] Exceptions raised in threads should be logged — "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>
71 messages
2012/06/25
[#45866] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6647] Exceptions raised in threads should be logged
— "rue (Eero Saynatkari)" <redmine@...>
2012/06/25
[#45878] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6649][Open] Add new set_trace_func events "b-call", "b-return" — "ko1 (Koichi Sasada)" <redmine@...>
8 messages
2012/06/26
[#45887] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6650][Open] Fixing win32ole test errors — bosko (Boško Ivanišević) <bosko.ivanisevic@...>
10 messages
2012/06/26
[#45916] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6656][Open] Time#strftime('%Z') should return 'UTC' instead of 'GMT' — "stomar (Marcus Stollsteimer)" <redmine@...>
6 messages
2012/06/27
[#45922] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #6656][Open] Time#strftime('%Z') should return 'UTC' instead of 'GMT'
— Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
2012/06/28
2012/6/27 stomar (Marcus Stollsteimer) <[email protected]>:
[#45935] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #6656][Open] Time#strftime('%Z') should return 'UTC' instead of 'GMT'
— Marcus Stollsteimer <sto.mar@...>
2012/06/28
Am 28.06.2012 02:29, schrieb Tanaka Akira:
[#45940] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #6656][Open] Time#strftime('%Z') should return 'UTC' instead of 'GMT'
— Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
2012/06/28
2012/6/28 Marcus Stollsteimer <[email protected]>:
[#45925] Commit bit in GitHub mirror? — Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Hello,
6 messages
2012/06/28
[#45926] Re: Commit bit in GitHub mirror?
— Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
2012/06/28
Hello, this is svn -> git gateway admin.
[#45958] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6668][Open] Multiple assignment should not return an Array object — "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>
7 messages
2012/06/29
[#47584] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6668] Multiple assignment should not return an Array object
— "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>
2012/09/19
[#45960] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6669][Open] A method like Hash#map but returns hash — "yhara (Yutaka HARA)" <redmine@...>
18 messages
2012/06/29
[#45983] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6675][Open] Raise exception when convert encoding of a character from GBK to UTF — "mghomn (Justin Peal)" <yujianbin@...>
5 messages
2012/06/30
[#46020] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6678][Open] Precedence of ^ operator — "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>
6 messages
2012/06/30
[#46021] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6679][Open] Default Ruby source file encoding to utf-8 — "claytrump (Clay Trump)" <clay.trump@...>
21 messages
2012/06/30
[#46080] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6679][Assigned] Default Ruby source file encoding to utf-8
— "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" <mame@...>
2012/07/01
[#46653] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6679] Default Ruby source file encoding to utf-8
— "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" <mame@...>
2012/07/23
[ruby-core:45814] Re: How can I contribute?
From:
David Albert <davidbalbert@...>
Date:
2012-06-23 22:00:44 UTC
List:
ruby-core #45814
Thanks for the kind words Ammar. I'm going to keep investigating 5776 and see where it leads me. If anyone else has any tips or anything they need help with, I'm happy to help out however I can. Best, -Dave On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Ammar Ali <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/23/12 12:19 AM, Clifford Heath wrote: > >> On 23/06/2012, at 2:39 AM, David Albert wrote: >> >>> Hello ruby-core, >>> >>> I've been using ruby as my primary language for two years now and I like >>> it quite a lot. I'd like to start contributing back to it, but I don't know >>> where to begin. Does anyone have any pointers as to where I can be helpful? >>> >> Don't bother. You can make all the contributions you want, but no-one >> even responds >> when you try to discuss them, or even to offers advice on how to proceed. >> > > That is a very negative attitude, and it does not accurately reflect the > reality. There are a lot of contributions made everyday, and they do get > attention. > > My experience, minimal as it is, was very positive. It started with a need > I had for something that ruby did not support (the Unicode Age property,) > so I asked if this addition would be considered. I received a response, > from a few people, including the maintainer, that it would, and that a > patch would be welcome. I jumped on the opportunity, submitted a patch, and > it was accepted. > > I think the best contributions are the ones that are driven by genuine > need, and good understanding of a given problem, not that ones that are > driven by the desire to contribute for the sake of contributing. > > If you have written extensions and gems, then I think that you have > already contributed. But it doesn't have to be just code, there are many > ways to contribute. You can contribute documentation, or improving the > existing documentation. You can contribute by submitting bug reports, or by > simply discussing proposed new features or features that strike you as > awkward. Even fixing typos is a valuable contribution. It all adds up. > > In the case of the issue you mentioned, it would be better to ask more > targeted questions about things you don't understand than it is to ask > generally. As a first step, try to find out if the change was indeed > intentional, and if so, why? That answer should help you with the next step. > > In any event, I didn't want the only answer you get to be "Don't > bother"... please do. Anyway you can. I wish my schedule allowed me to, > more often. > > Regards, > Ammar > > >