Now that I’ve moved from Seattle to New York, started my new career at Lab49, got married, and just got back from the honeymoon, my public techie life can resume. And I’m happy to resume it on a positive note.
Today signifies a big step in Microsoft’s commitment to open-source: Jason Zander announced new leadership for IronRuby and IronPython, namely Miguel de Icaza, Michael Foord, Jeff Hardy, and myself. Since Microsoft has officially put the project in our hands, both languages will be open to contributions from the community, not just the core team members. Also, any previously unreleased work as been released, include the IronRuby tools for Visual Studio and groundwork towards IronPython 2.7 and 1.9. You can find the appropriate releases on both IronRuby and IronPython’s CodePlex sites.
Though Microsoft is no longer directly resourcing these projects, there are definitely companies providing support. Lab49 has been tremendously supportive of my participation in the project, and is interested in supporting the project in substantial ways going forward. Those details will become clearer in the future, but it’s great to see my company taking a proactive role in the projects I’m part of. Also, Miguel is a big-shot at Novell, but I’ll let him comment on how his company is supporting the projects. =)
The reality of open-source software is that corporate sponsorship and funding comes and goes. I'm grateful to Microsoft for starting IronPython and IronRuby, funding it up until this point, and passing the torch to individuals who will continue to progress the languages forward. I’d specifically like to thank Bill Chiles, Dino Viehland, and Tomáš Matoušek, who did the hard work to make this transition happen.
If you’re interested in the future of these projects, please subscribe to their mailing lists (IronRuby, IronPython) and help us to continue making a great dynamic language experience on .NET.
19 comments:
Congratulations on getting married and on being named a steward of IronRuby! :)
Congratulations!! Lots I want to do with IronRuby so great to see more backing :)
Move the project away from codeplex, it doesn't deserve to hold it.
Congrats, Jimmy!
All of the IronRuby code already lives on GitHub - From what I can tell CodePlex is a wiki\bug tracking tool together with promotion.
GitHub provides an improved experience on all three counts ;)
It is wonderful news that IronRuby will continue on! Thanks to the new project leaders and everyone who contributes patches, bugs, documentation, and more to the IronRuby project.
Congratulation. I'll try contribute more this time.
Thats great! Now all Microsoft still has to do is to make their framework multi-platform (I mean really: Win/Lin/*NIX/*BSD/OSX)... And Open-Source the code of the framework :D
Excellent news. Will be happy to help.
This is great news! Thanks Microsoft for contributing this to the Open Source ecosystem and not letting the project die.
Congratulations Jimmy. I am sad to see we're not supporting it any more, but happy to see whose hands it passed into :-)
Congrats on the wedding, new job, and being back in the big apple.
Congrats on the wedding, Jimmy! Its sad to hear that the team we worked on together for five years will be no more at Microsoft, but it will be interesting to watch the community shape the projects going forward. All the best!
Congratulations and also thanks for tell us best news.
Open-source is a way to go for many platforms and software, because those software usually gets the most developers that just wants to play around and create even better products. Good thing that Microfost is starting to support open source
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Love to know that Iron Rubby is still working and come back again.Thnx for the information
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As of May 2013 I'm sad to see that the IronRuby project has been dead for 2 years.
I wonder, who benefits from the fact that ruby runs on the .NET?
It would be nice, if some competent Microsoft guy explained, why people should write .NET code, if Java is multi-platform? What stops Microsoft from adapting Java VM to it's needs? Why the extra effort of building the CLOSED SOURCE .NET while Java is all open source?
Thanks for the answer! :-)
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