DevelopersMeetingSummary20140517Japan¶

Agenda DevelopersMeeting20140517Japan

Attendance¶

• in person: sora_h, shyouhei, akr, naruse, ko1, hsbt, tarui
• online: matz, n0kada

[Feature #9772] IO#statfs and File::Statfs¶

not accepted. A gem should be made first.

[Feature #9647] File::Stat#birthtime¶

accepted

[Feature #9816] 文字列内の数字を数値として比較するメソッド¶

This feature is about comparing characters as numbers, like for Gem versions. For instance, 11 > 9 #=> true

• still need more discussion
• also need a good name

date¶

going separate it into a bundled gem

[Feature #9513] Hide Rational internal (akr)¶

accepted

[Feature #9826] Enumerable#slice_between (akr)¶

Matz likes the idea, but it needs a better name. There is already Array#slice.

[Feature #9071] Enumerable#slice_after (akr)¶

accepted

[Feature #9770] Etc.uname (akr)¶

accepted

[Feature #9842] system configuration variables (sysconf(), confstr(), pathconf() and fpathconf()) (akr)¶

accepted

[Feature #9834] Float#{next_float,prev_float} (akr)¶

accepted

[Feature #9632] [offtopic] remove doxygen?¶

dropping support for doxygen

[Feature #9711] Remove test-unit and minitest from stdlib. Can I remove test-unit? /cc sora_h (hsbt)¶

continuing to discuss about bundling test libraries test-unit/minitest.

remove rubyforge url(hsbt)¶

accepted

give up callcc (tarui)¶

accepted: going to fade out callcc support

Hash#comprized? (hone02)¶

http://olivierlacan.com/posts/proposal-for-a-better-ruby-hash-include/

• need a good name
• unclear what the usecase is
• continue to discuss on redmine

[ANN] chkbuildXXX.hsbt.org¶

Using Ruby Association's funds, 4 machines have been prepared for chkbuild. chkbuild is the Ruby CI platform powering http://rubyci.org. We also want something besides Intel like running ARM on top of QEMU.

Next Meetings¶

• 6/18, 18:30 JST: discussing [Feature #9711], doorkeeper
• 7/26: big features for 2.2