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From:

Mike Gunderloy

Date:

2009-12-06 @ 01:30

I was hoping someone would give me an excuse to come try out Librelist - 
thanks Pat. 

What am I doing with Rails? Right now I've got six or eight active 
projects for clients, with team sizes ranging from 2 to 12. Some are 
all-contractor teams, some are a mix of contractors and employees. Over 
the last six months or so I've been gravitating to more of the project 
management work, because I'm good at it and because most other devs want 
nothing to do with management. It's a living, anyhow.

Challenges? One is keeping reasonably current on too many tools; as a 
contractor, I'm not always in a position to pick the plugins or gems or 
test stack or server stack. Moving back and forth between, say, Test::Unit
and RSpec means having to know enough to be dangerous in either one 
without being a real expert in either. So I tend to get a broad but 
relatively shallow exposure to many parts of the Rails world.

The other main challenge I see in my Rails future is what to do when (if?)
Rails 3 actually ships something. So far I haven't seen anything in the 
commit logs that makes me willing to take the pain of jumping to Rails 3. 
But does that mean I'll be stuck on an aging and unmaintained Rails 2? I 
call to mind some people I knew who used to be very successful dBase 
consultants, and then mildly successful dBase maintainers, and then out of
a job entirely.

Mike

Mike Gunderloy
ActionRails/Lark Group

On Dec 06, 2009, at 1:30 am, Mike Gunderloy wrote:

> I was hoping someone would give me an excuse to come try out Librelist -
thanks Pat. 

LibreList has an annoying bug(?) though, it's List-Id header is formatted 
like this:

  List-Id: rails.excellence@librelist.com

not

  List-Id: rspec-users <rspec-users.rubyforge.org>

The lack of angle-brackets means you can't filter on "Has the words: 
'listid: rails.excellence@librelist.com'" in Google Mail.

Yes, I always am this pedantic :)  Interested to see more about LibreList though.

I'll post a serious AND useful introduction at some point.

Ashley

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On Dec 6, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Ashley Moran wrote:

> LibreList has an annoying bug(?) though

Zed is actively seeking developers for the LibreList project: 
http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-12-03.html 

It'd be worth at least entering a ticket at the support site on this.

Mike