On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Yusuke Endoh <mame / tsg.ne.jp> wrote: >> but nothing has been done so far, I haven't received any feedback, and >> now this 2.0 feature freeze announcement comes out of the blue (for me >> at least). > > Sorry, but please do NOT assume that you can get a feedback > just by opening a feature request ticket. > All feature proposers are supposed to make an effort to get > related committers' interest and matz's approval. Thanks for your answer and your advices Yusuke. I have written to mr. Knu (maintainer of IPAddr) multiple times, I have interacted with Matz which was positive about the idea, I have opened the ticket and even asked what I could do to help. Next step was to be reported for stalking, but I have a family to take care of and they don't let me code from prison :-) > It is also a very good idea to appeal to matz face-to-face, > e.g., at some conferences. I've tried with a horse head in the bed, didn't work. > In short, you don't have to hesitate, or even you are > encouraged to open any feature request ticket, but it is > often insufficient. Got the message. I'll have to improve my determination from this point of view. Thanks again for your adivces. Now, my 2 cents: IPAddr should not be part of Ruby 2.0. It is too outdated and too strangely behaving to be the default IP addresses management library for a mainstream language such as Ruby. I know Ruby doesn't exactly target to networking, but If you don't plan to replace it with some other library (there are many) at least consider to just not include it.