Stepping up as SQLite3/Ruby maintainer

So, I think this may be good news for some folks.

February 24, 2009 is the date that Jamis Buck marked as the end of several of his open source projects, including SQLite3/Ruby. (you can read the post here)

Previously, he asked for help updating SQLite3/Ruby to make it work on Windows.

That sad news left a lot of us with a bad taste, and very unhappy, not because we no longer will have someone to complain at, but because he no longer enjoyed working on those projects.

Over the past months I’ve been improving rake-compiler to be able to catch most of the building issues of several projects, including my own (I love to scratch my own itch).

As you have noticed on my “getting started with Rails and SQLite3″: http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/07/06/getting-started-with-rails-and-sqlite3/ post, I successfully built, installed and used a SQLite3/Ruby gem on Windows.

The next question was, what to do? The work to get all those lovely gems was there, initial 1.9 was there, but was not official

While SQLite3/Ruby being the de-facto for getting started with Rails, we couldn’t let it die.

Enough words, sent some emails to Jamis and now I can publish those gems to RubyForge.

What all that babbling means?

This means:

• My fork at GitHub is the new mainstream for the releases
• I’m going to go over the open bugs and tickets and asses validity and relevancy based on work that was already done in my fork.
• The release cycle has been improved and almost automated. It can be performed from Windows, Linux or OSX, even using latter to create Windows native gems.

Now, what happens with new features:

• Pull requests with patches and bug fixes are going to be accepted.
• New features will be evaluated as long they don’t impose structural changes and carry with them tests cases.
• Patches that improve Ruby 1.9 compatibility are highly appreciated.

I don’t have strong knowledge of all the internals of this tool, so don’t expect earth breaking changes from me, except ensuring stability.

I hope this is good news to everybody. Now I’m going to stalk MySQL binding author and get permission to push those lovely gems

Cheers everybody!

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