On 05/28/2013 11:01 AM, David Majda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as some may know, since January few SUSE developers in Prague are
> working on automatically translating YaST codebase from YCP (an old
> proprietary language) into Ruby. The main goals are to give the platform
> a technology boost, so that we can evolve it easier in the future, and
> lower the effort spent on maintenance in the long term.
> 
> The project recently reached an important milestone -- we are able to
> install a 12.3-based system using an installer composed only of
> translated YaST modules:
> 
>   http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2013-05/msg00026.html
> 
> We plan to integrate the work into Factory/openSUSE 13.1 soon (the
> details are still being fleshed out). This will make YaST an important
> part of the Ruby ecosystem as provided by openSUSE. I thought it would
> be good to make all openSUSE/SUSE Ruby developers aware of that, as
> their work will have much bigger impact now.
> 
> If you are interested in details of the translation project, the main
> entry point is the YCP Killer project repository on GitHub:
> 
>   https://github.com/yast/ycp-killer
> 
> If you have any questions or you would like to help with
> testing/development, feel free to contact us.
> 

Good job! :)

congrats
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