Jason Garber Finishes SuperRedCloth For Me

March 20th 19:02
by why

At last, open source works as it should. Certainly, patching is cool. Branching is cool. But nothing beats intruding in my repo and just finishing the whole thing. Which is what Jason Garber has done for SuperRedCloth.

I started rewriting RedCloth on the 22nd of January, 2007. Revision 134.

And Jason finished on the 15th of March, 2008. Revision 271.

Of those 137 commits, 102 are Jason. SuperRedCloth is his. Seriously, what a champ!

I don’t know if this has happened to any of you out there. With your projects. But if you think open source is just about copyright or simply about pleasing users, no way. In this case, the original hacker benefited just as much as anyone. Maybe more. SuperRedCloth was finished due to no effort of mine and is obviously superior to how I would have finished it. You might say I’m an avid fan of SuperRedCloth.

I have altered the copyrights and credits to reflect Jason as the owner. Please give Jason your thanks and give the newly merged RedCloth 4 a try!

gem install RedCloth --source http://code.whytheluckystiff.net

Discussion at RedCloth-Upwards.

Now begin the comments …

17 comments

mitch

said on March 20th 19:55

Virtual high five to Jason! * slap *

miguel

said on March 20th 20:53

not to be so negative, but do you ever finish anything? When is someone going to finish shoes and hackety hack for you? Come on PEOPLE, step up and get it done. Props to Jason!

warren

said on March 21st 15:19

Way to show some initiative, Jason! Thanks for picking up where _why left off… and _why, thanks for starting in the first place!

topfunky

said on March 21st 17:14

@miguel: Why is a visionary and provides the world with inspiring ideas. Is that not enough?

miguel

said on March 21st 19:02

very true warren and topfunky. forgive my impatience Why. I do enjoy the work you do.

Hampton C

said on March 22nd 09:18

That’s exactly what Nathan did for me with Haml. I did the initial ~5 months of development, the just came in and totally took the project over in all technical aspects. Now, I just focus on deciding about syntaxes and going to the tanning salon in my BMW.

Hampton C

said on March 22nd 09:18

That’s exactly what Nathan did for me with Haml. I did the initial ~5 months of development, the just came in and totally took the project over in all technical aspects. Now, I just focus on deciding about syntaxes and going to the tanning salon in my BMW.

doki_pen

said on March 22nd 10:44

miguel,

I see checkin for shoes almost everyday. Looks like _why is wokring his ass off on that project. The truth is, is a project ever really finished? Even if there is no more features to implement, you can always make the code nicer. And defects are never truly banished to the underworld.

wayneeseguin

said on March 22nd 16:03

This is exciting news! Awesome job guys!

Paul Goscicki

said on March 26th 07:13

Awesome!

When will this be available as a normal gem on RubyForge replacing the 3.0.4 version (so I don’t have to specify the —source parameter)?

Paul Goscicki

said on March 26th 07:13

Awesome!

When will this be available as a normal gem on RubyForge replacing the 3.0.4 version (so I don’t have to specify the —source parameter)?

Paul Goscicki

said on March 26th 07:14

Uhm, hitting submit (>>) generates a 404 error, hence the double comment.

ka2

said on March 26th 23:09

:D

ka2

said on March 26th 23:09

@Paul Goscicki it does too

Brian

said on March 31st 19:36

Whoaa, go virtual teamwork! Great open source success story…

Brian

said on March 31st 19:36

Whoaa, go virtual teamwork! Great open source success story…

technomancy

said on April 2nd 11:22

Hampton C: you’re lucky he didn’t rename it Naml while you weren’t looking.

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