# Ruby BoF

Topics (feel free to add more):

* we now have more than 800 packages
  * that's 3.5% of source packages in the archive
  * that's more than x4 in two releases
  * removing old unmaintained (unneeded) packages (upstream dead)
  * Remove hpricot and fast-xs! (and help upstream migrate to something else (nokogiri): eg ronn)
  * UDD query to find old packages: https://gist.github.com/zeha/0ff1c8b8bd1559835d35
    * packages sorted by oldest last upload date
  * need to rebuild all the ones that won't be removed to update
    rubygems-integration files
  * it seems there is now an arch:all buildd
  * but refreshing debian/ with new dh-make-ruby would be nice anyway
    * enabling tests where possible
* Ruby 2.2 transition: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/ruby2.2.html
  + help the GCC transition first (by fixing affected ruby-* packages)
  + ruby2.2 by default available by installing ruby from experimental
  + Transition explained on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/InterpreterTransitions
* Plans for Stretch (ruby 2.3 should come out on Christmas)
  * we will need another transition during early 2016
  * need to be ready for November next year
  * help wanted with tracking the transition
      * https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/InterpreterTransitions
* Fixing rspec 3 breakage
  * Lots of open FTBFS bugs reported by reproducible team
  * upstreams (e.g. yard) will sometimes not want to migrate the test suite
  * maintaining a big patch against upstream test suite is not always practical
  * possible approach: disable upstream tests, write acceptance tests with
    autopkgtest integration
* Transition to Rails 4.2
  * https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Rails4.2
  * missing only redmine most probably
* Gitlab (94% of dependencies done)
* Diaspora mostly done also
* open-build-service being packaged inside the team repos by collabora.co.uk
  folks
* How to deal with rails-asset packages?
  - these packages have 90% javascript
  - some binary libjs packages are in the Ruby section
  - need documentation on the Wiki about how to handle them
  - include them in the ruby policy
  - ACTION: boutil to talk to JS, Python, Perl teams about this
* remove libfoo-ruby transitional packages
  * ACTION: hggh to salvage non-team maintained, contacting maintainers and
    uploading to DELAYED/n for the largest n you can find
    * both packages that didn't migrate to the new naming at all and packages
      still with transitional binaries
* Support another ruby implementations? (e.g. jruby).
  - a way to switch ruby, irb, gem, etc commands?
  - ACTION: nomadium to look into ruby-standalone and try something similar
* next team sprint
  - ACTION: terceiro to organize next sprint in Brazil with help from
    kanashiro and thiagosvk try a full week sprint

libfoo-ruby - remove ruby transitional packages
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Bug 	| Package                 | Maintainer
#735689	src:ruby-algorithm-diff   | Team    <- RM done
#735696	src:ruby-bsearch          | Team    <- fixed
#735697	src:ruby-dbd-odbc         | Team    <- fixed
#735699	src:ruby-dbd-pg           | Team    <- fixed
#735700	src:ruby-event-loop       | Team    <- RM done
#735709	src:ruby-net-netrc        | Tatsuki Sugiura <sugi@nemui.org>   <- RM done
#735714	src:ruby-svg-graph        | Team
#735717	src:ruby-uconv            | Team    <- fixed
#735718	src:samizdat              | Team    <- fixed
#735722	src:ruby-merb-helpers     | Team
#735723	src:ruby-imagesize        | Tatsuki Sugiura <sugi@nemui.org>   <- pending RM
#735725	src:ruby-gd               | Team    <- fixed
#735726	src:ruby-erubis           | Team    <- fixed
#735730	src:ruby-wirble           | Team    <- fixed
#735740	src:ruby-packet           | Team    <- RM done


= 'sid' AND package LIKE 'lib%-ruby%' AND description NOT LIKE '%ransitional%';
          package           |      maintainer_name       
----------------------------+----------------------------
 libgv-ruby                 | Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)  <- ask if they want to drop the ruby bindings, as there are no r-deps?
 libhtml-htmltokenizer-ruby | Deepak Tripathi
 librdf-ruby                | Dave Beckett
 librfilter-ruby1.8         | YAEGASHI Takeshi   <- pending RM
 libroot-bindings-ruby-dev  | Debian Science Maintainers
 libroot-bindings-ruby5.34  | Debian Science Maintainers
 libstfl-ruby               | Nico Golde
 libstfl-ruby1.8            | Nico Golde   <- catch Nico at DebConf
 libstfl-ruby1.9.1          | Nico Golde
 libsvn-ruby1.8             | Peter Samuelson
 libtcltk-ruby              | Antonio Terceiro
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