Debian Ruby team sprint 2015
The Debian Ruby Ruby team had a first sprint in 2014. The experience was very positive, and it was decided to do it again in 2015. Last April, the team once more met at the IRILL offices, in Paris, France.
The participants worked to improve the quality Ruby packages in Debian, including fixing release critical and security bugs, improving metadata and packaging code, and triaging test failures on the Debian Continuous Integration service.
The sprint also served to prepare the team infrastructure for the future Debian 9 release:
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gem2debpackaging helper to improve the semi-automated generation of Debian source packages from existing standard-compliant Ruby packages from Rubygems. -
there was also an effort to prepare the switch to Ruby 2.2, the latest stable release of the Ruby language which was released after the Debian testing suite was already frozen for the Debian 8 release.
Left to right: Christian Hofstaedtler, Tomasz Nitecki, Sebastien Badia and Antonio Terceiro.
A full report with technical details has been posted to the relevant Debian mailing lists.