Misc #21804: Getting setup-ruby Earlier

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[koic (Koichi ITO)]

ruby/setup-ruby is commonly used for development in OSS projects and real-world Rails applications.
https://github.com/ruby/setup-ruby

This is not specific to Ruby 4.0.0. There is often a delay between a Ruby release and the availability of the corresponding version in setup-ruby. setup-ruby is maintained by the ruby organization and may take a few days to become available after a Ruby release.

In contrast, ruby-build is maintained by the rbenv organization and tends to become available shortly after a Ruby release. This makes it easier to start using new Ruby versions immediately.

If setup-ruby maintained by the ruby organization were released shortly after a Ruby release, users could start using new Ruby versions sooner.

It is difficult to determine whether this issue should be registered on bugs.ruby-lang.org. Since setup-ruby is maintained by the ruby organization, this issue is being opened to raise awareness of the situation. If this is not appropriate, please feel free to close it.

Thank you for your continued maintenance and for releasing Ruby.

[byroot (Jean Boussier)]

In this case the update is automated and ready to be merged by the repo maintainer: https://github.com/ruby/setup-ruby/pull/844

If I may, the issue to me seems more to be like many Ruby owned projects, it's mostly a one person show, so if the maintainer is away for a bit, then we can't do anything other than wait.

So I think there a more general issue of moving away from "single maintainer" repos, as it's not healthy.