Thanks, Jeff, for your past and future work. -----Original Message----- From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Hardy Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:09 PM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: [IronPython] The Future of IronPython
As Dino recently posted, this is the last release of IronPython by Microsoft. As of today, myself, Michael Foord, Jimmy Schementi, and Miguel de Icaza are the coordinators for the IronPython project (Jimmy and Miguel will also handle IronRuby). More information can be found from Jason Zander: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2010/10/21/new-components-and-con tributors-for-ironpython-and-ironruby.aspx. Do note that Zander doesn't actually come out and *say* that Microsoft is no longer funding IronPython/IronRuby, but that's what has happened. Any future participation from MS employees will be on an unofficial, spare-time basis. All that said, I hope this isn't the end of IronPython. There's a good community here, and I think we can do just as good a job as Microsoft did. You can now contribute patches to IronPython, but that means you will have to if you want the it to flourish. A good Open Source community requires a core of regular contributors, but also requires a mass of occasional ones that are just scratching their particular itches. >From here, my goal is to get IronPython 2.7 final out the door in a timely manner. Let's leave discussions about things like source control or external libraries aside for a bit and get a solid release -- then we can start those discussions. I fear that starting a major overhaul will kill any momentum we have and cause the 2.7 release to be unacceptably delayed. I wouldn't have signed up to do this if I thought IronPython didn't have a future. - Jeff _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original copy and any copy of any e-mail, and any printout thereof. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
