From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: 2013-02-10T18:57:43+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:52103] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #7820] Let's decide Ruby 2.0 supported platform list On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:11 PM, jonforums (Jon Forums) wrote: > > Issue #7820 has been updated by jonforums (Jon Forums). > > > A great idea to simplify and clarify! > > Perhaps listing support tiers instead of "well-cared" and "maintained"? > > * Tier 1: the platform has a public CI (normally green) and is maintained by a ruby-core committer > * Tier 2: the platform is maintained by a ruby-core committer I like a name of tier[12]. > * 3rd Party: best-effort support by members of the ruby community (e.g. - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ruby_SIG) > > Note that the 3rd Party tier is an opportunity for commercial and non-commercial parties to get a form of (non-endorsed) advertisement. > > While it should be self evident that just because a platform (e.g. Arch Linux) is not listed in any support tier doesn't mean MRI won't build/test/install on that platform, consider adding something much shorter than the sentence you just finished. Essentially, "try it, and if it breaks let us know." In this case, 3rd party want to use their own bug tracker. thus, I don't want to put misleading advertise. As far as our community don't have any maintainer nor developer, we have to keep silence. I'm afraid unnecessary advertise bring them harmful. > Consider dropping the OS version as it's misleading and often out-of-date. For example, listing "Ubuntu 10.04 64bit" can be misinterpreted as meaning ruby-core is only supporting an outdated OS version. I know this to be false as I regularly test on Ubuntu 12.10 32bit and 64bit. > > Instead of listing mingw, mswin32, mswin64 consider: > > * Tier 1: > * Windows 7/8 32/64bit (nobu) > > * Tier 2: > * Windows 7/8 32/64bit (usa) > > Yes, I'm in favor of dropping "official" support for XP and ready to dodge the arrows for advocating for it ;) Hm. this is interesting and debatable idea. I have an another idea. * Tier 1: * Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit * Tier 2: * Ubuntu >10.04 64-bit The background theory is, tier1 must have CI. then tier have to have version number. "maybe work" should be categorized tier 2.