>> I think some of the shine came off when they had a gaping security hole
>> in which they demanded that people upgrade to the latest revision
>> In 2 or 3 days they pushed out like 2 or 3 patches.
> 
> I've seen this quite a bit with open-source software.  Everything goes great
> for a while then they slip up for a while.  This happened to the PHP
> developers early in the v4 release cycle and they finally set up a security
> team to be in full charge of it - RoR needs to do likewise.
> 

I've seen this quite a bit with propriety software as well.  The only 
difference is the propriety vendors don't readily
disclose security holes in their product; the so-called security through 
obscurity model.  ;)

Eric

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