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At Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:18:19 +0900,
MenTaLguY wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:07:30 +0900, Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux / m4x.org> wrote:
> > My experience w.r.t. the ruby tracker is that it seems hardly used, and
> > that discussions about bugs are always done on either ruby-dev or
> > ruby-core. That's why I came here in the first place.
>
> My own experience (with multiple projects) has been that it's best
> to do both -- put the bug reports/patches in the tracker whilst also
> calling attention to them on the mailing list: filing tracker
> entries without posting to the mailing list usually means that
> nobody notices, while posting to the mailing list without putting
> anything in the tracker usually means that nobody remembers.

Filing an issue to the tracker especially helps when many versions of
patches are posted in a discussion.  It's not very nice to see the
wrong or incomplete patch committed.

> > Moreover, I hope these patches will be integrated *real soon* since for
> > now default builds of Ruby 1.8.6 do *not* have a working multi-thread support.
>
> I don't have commit rights, so I've CCed Akinori in case he's missed the thread so far.
>
> (Executive summary: the recursive_lock and not_owner patches
> implement stricter behavior at the expense of breaking backwards
> compatibility with thread.rb, whereas the condvar_wait and
> remove_one patches fix serious bugs without introducing any apparent
> compatibility problems.)

Which set of patches do you think should be committed?  The former to
ruby_1_8 and the latter to ruby_1_8_6?

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