About the Ruby team

The Debian Ruby team maintains Ruby software in Debian. This includes the interpreters, libraries and applications.

• Libraries and applications are maintained inside the pkg-ruby-extras project.

• The interpreter packages are maintained inside of the collab-maint project.

• Goals for Debian Jessie

Get in touch

Mailing lists:

• debian-ruby mailing list -- General discussions, sponsorship requests etc

• pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers mailing list -- bug reports and other communication targetted at team-maintained packages

IRC: #debian-ruby channel on irc.debian.org

How to contribute

We are currently working on several items for the next Debian release. There are several items there in need of a volunteer to do it. Feel free to mail the team mailing list if you need any clarification before contributing to one of those items.

Besides that, there are recurring tasks that can always benefit from more people helping:

• Improving documentation (this page, the Ruby page, etc..)

• Maintainance of the team packages, including:

  • bug triaging
  • bug fixing
  • packaging improvements in general

Documentation and Links

• Packaging basics: see the packaging-tutorial package

  • $ apt-get install packaging-tutorial

  • Team Documentation and current packaging practices.

• Information for upstream developers: /RubyExtras/UpstreamDevelopers, /RubyExtras/OnRubygems

• overview of team packages

  • Packages overview

  • PET overview for packages in Git

  • Debian Maintainer Dashboard for the team

  • list of all Git repositories owned by the pkg-ruby-extras team

• Current status of the gem2deb transition

• Ruby 2.2 Transition Help