Thank you Jeff you are taking the responsibility for the final 2.7 release.
*I'd like to help. What is the best place to start?* -- -- Lukás( On 22.10.2010 1:09, Jeff Hardy wrote:
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-contributors-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
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