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Thank you Jeff you are taking the responsibility for the final 2.7
release.<br>
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<b>I'd like to help. What is the best place to start?</b><br>
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-- Lukáš<br>
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On 22.10.2010 1:09, Jeff Hardy wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2010/10/21/new-components-and-contributors-for-ironpython-and-ironruby.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2010/10/21/new-components-and-contributors-for-ironpython-and-ironruby.aspx</a>.
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
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