On Jan 7, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As many of you know, Guy Decoux passed away last year. Consequently,
> there are 5 libraries on the RAA that will need new homes:
>
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/search.rhtml?search=decoux
>
> I talked to Erik Hollensbe about having the ruby-dbi project adopt the
> pl-ruby library, and I think the bdb libraries, too (for a future dbd-
> bdb).
>
> Does that seem reasonable to everyone?
>
> As for the mmap and bzip2 libraries, we'll need volunteers, preferably
> someone who uses these libraries in practice. My own feeling is that
> the CodeForPeople or Seattle.rb projects would be good homes. They're
> sort of miscellaneous libraries, and I seem to recall that Ara Howard
> was a heavy user of mmap, though obviously they can speak for
> themselves.
>

Ara and I had a conversation about this last month. I've adopted the  
mmap project, and it will be hosted as a gem under the codeforpeople  
moniker. Source code is out on Github.

http://github.com/TwP/mmap/tree/master

> I realize this may be a bit of a touchy subject, and I certainly mean
> no disrespect to Guy or to any members of this list. I simply felt
> this issue should be addressed.
>

Guy is going to be sorely missed in the community. Thanks, Dan, for  
taking the effort to keep his work alive.

Blessings,
TwP