RESULT: comp.lang.ruby passes 200:16
Dave Cornejo
dave at dogwood.com
Fri Apr 28 09:43:33 EDT 2000
RESULT
unmoderated group comp.lang.ruby passes 200:16
There were 200 YES votes and 16 NO votes, for a total of 216 valid
votes. There were 5 abstentions and 2 invalid ballots.
For a group to pass, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid
(YES and NO) votes. There must also be at least 100 more YES votes
than NO votes.
A five day discussion period follows this announcement. If no
serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the
moderator of news.announce.newgroups will create the group shortly
thereafter.
Newsgroups line:
comp.lang.ruby The Ruby dynamic OO programming language.
Voting closed at 23:59:59 UTC, 20 Apr 2000.
This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. Questions
about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.
Proponent: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker at jump.net>
Votetaker: Dave Cornejo <dave at dogwood.com>
RATIONALE: comp.lang.ruby
Ruby is a very-high-level, dynamic object oriented programming language.
Ruby provides many of the best-liked power and convenience features of Perl
and Python on one hand, with an elegantly simple and powerful syntax that
was partly inspired by Eiffel and Ada on the other hand. Ruby is a more
thoroughly objected oriented language than Python, and some Ruby features
were inspired by Smalltalk. Ruby is an open source language.
There are over 1000 members of 4 Japanese Ruby mail lists (general,
developers, math, extension writers), with a peak volume topping 100
messages per day. At present, there is one English Ruby mail list with
about 175 members, with a recent volume often exceeding 10 messages per
day and growing. Many users of the Japanese Ruby mail lists have some
understanding of English and are also prospective comp.lang.ruby users
as well.
Much of 1999's newsgroup discussion of Ruby took place on comp.lang.python,
which is not optimal, since comp.lang.python is dedicated to the Python
language. For obvious reasons, Ruby users do not post there frequently. In
2000, most Ruby discussion has occurred in comp.lang.misc. This again is not
ideal since other comp.lang.misc regulars are typically more interested in
issues that transcend Ruby, and have said as much.
In Japan, Ruby has overtaken Python in terms of popular usage. During 1999
and into early 2000, Ruby has been featured in several articles in the
English language software trade press, indicating it is at the takeoff
threshold that Perl and Python attained years ago. (Please see
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/ruby.html for the latest
example.) The English language Ruby home page is
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/, which provides links to documentation and
download pages for Ruby.
CHARTER: comp.lang.ruby
The comp.lang.ruby newsgroup is devoted to discussions of the Ruby
programming language and related issues.
Examples of relevant postings include, but are not be limited to,
the following subjects:
- Bug reports
- Announcements of software written with Ruby
- Examples of Ruby code
- Suggestions for Ruby developers
- Requests for help from new Ruby programmers
The newsgroup is not moderated. Binaries are prohibited (except the
small PGP type). Advertising is prohibited (except for announcements
of new Ruby-related products).
END CHARTER.
comp.lang.ruby Final Voter list
Voted YES
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andy#research.canon.com.au Andy Newman
joandvan#ihug.com.au joandvan
alxx#tig.com.au al
jim_g#tig.com.au Jim
p.fuller#student.murdoch.edu.au Paul Fuller
geldridg#progsoc.uts.edu.au Geoff Eldridge
toivo#ucs.uwa.edu.au Toivo Pedaste
gcross#netspace.net.au Graeme Cross
doctor#doctor.nl2k.ab.ca Dave Yadallee
trevort#vianet.on.ca Trevor Tymchuk
MSteed#altiris.com Mike Steed
ml#au.com Mike Linksvayer
kimdv#best.com Kim DeVaughn
dgoodger#bigfoot.com David Goodger
jcm#bigskytel.com David Porter
Eric.Peterson2#PSS.Boeing.com Eric Peterson
Makoto.Nakagawa#jp.compaq.com Nakagawa Makoto
fenghou#erols.com Jack Hou</FONT></DIV>
julesd#erols.com Jules Dubois
smlucas#famvid.com Steven Lucas
emile#fenx.com Emile van Sebille
mzadka#geocities.com Moshe Zadka
Henry#hdsSystems.com Henry Schneiker
SchaeferFFM#hotmail.com Oliver Schaefer
thucdat#hotmail.com Dat Nguyen
tetsu#jpn.hp.com Tetsuya WATANABE
gnhurst#hurstlinks.com Guy N. Hurst
sullivan#Mathcom.COM Steve Sullivan
petelyons#mindspring.com Pete Lyons
Taka.Adachi#msdw.com Takanori Adachi
tim_one#email.msn.com Tim Peters
jolomo#netcom.com Joey Morris
tgm#netcom.com Thomas G. McWilliams
Ralph.Amissah#operamail.com Ralph Amissah
tseaver#palladion.com Tres Seaver
apter#panix.com stevan apter
Tbone#pimpdaddy.com Tushar Samant
jimrtex#pipeline.com Jim Riley
wknaka#pobox.com Wes Nakamura
wang#rjka.com Huayin Wang
jbauer#rubic.com Jeff Bauer
chris.browne#sabre.com Christopher Browne
takaaki.higuchi#Japan.Sun.COM Takaaki Higuchi
peter#taronga.com Peter da Silva
Dave#Thomases.com Dave Thomas
juliet#thomases.com Juliet Thomas
andy#Toolshed.Com Andrew Hunt
ellie#Toolshed.Com Ellie Callahan
joe31416#voicenet.com Joe Myers
Abhay.Natu#wcom.com Abhay Natu
xanthian#well.com Kent Paul Dolan
rascproponents#yahoo.com Brian P. Sweeney
wpostma#ztr.com <SPAN class=485464314-31032000>
mrilu#ale.cx mrilu
mertz#gnosis.cx David Mertz
Juergen.Cohrs#alcatel.de Juergen Cohrs
Ekkehard.Uthke#gmx.de Ekkehard Uthke
peter.sommerfeld#gmx.de Peter Sommerfeld
burow#ifh.de Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow
sn#neopoly.de Sven Neuhaus
vote-de#kholdan.snafu.de Tobias Erle
Walter.Zettel#t-online.de Walter Zettel
bouvin#daimi.au.dk Niels Olof Bouvin
jpsecher#diku.dk Jens Peter Secher
quinn#groat.ugcs.caltech.edu Quinn Dunkan
cjc26#cornell.edu Cliff Crawford
adam#mlug.missouri.edu Adam Procter
neelk#alum.mit.edu Neel Krishnaswami
behrends#cse.msu.edu Reimer Behrends
shippy#cs.nmt.edu Jeff Shipman
rcl211#is9.nyu.edu Robert C Linwood
graham#ccs.ucsb.edu Graham Hughes
reic0024#d.umn.edu Aaron J Reichow
uscfadsl#ds.cesga.es David S de Lis
hcjake#cs.hut.fi Jaakko Vayrynen
decoux#moulon.inra.fr Guy Decoux
dcalvelo#pharion.univ-lille2.fr Daniel Calvelo
drew.mcdowell#msfc.nasa.gov Andrew D. McDowell
legradi#alpha1.obuda.kando.hu Gabor Legradi
ariels#compugen.co.il Ariel Scolnicov
masato#csys.ce.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp Masato KIYAMA
gotoken#math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp GOTO Kentaro
masa#koala.astro.isas.ac.jp Masahiro Tanaka
thitoshi#ne.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp TAKAHASHI Hitoshi
nagai#ai.kyutech.ac.jp Hidetoshi NAGAI
sinara#blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp Shin-ichiro HARA
ogino#coop.nagoya-u.ac.jp Mitsuru Ogino
naosone#naruto-u.ac.jp Naoto SONE
ohdachi#nifs.ac.jp Satoshi Ohdachi
washizu#kkc1.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp Hitoshi Washizu
fukusima#goto.info.waseda.ac.jp Masaki Fukushima
igarashi#ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp Hiroshi Igarashi
os#iij.ad.jp OHARA Shigeki
ksasaki#kddnet.ad.jp Kan Sasaki
Taiji.Can#atesoft.advantest.co.jp Taiji Kan
suenaga#birds.co.jp SUENAGA Tomohiro
p95#brain-tokyo.co.jp Taku Nakajima
kimura#sqa.canon.co.jp KIMURA Koichi
fit0298#fitec.co.jp ARIMA Yasuhiro
inoue#ftv.co.jp Hirosi Inoue
ogi#open.nm.fujitsu.co.jp Takayuki Ogihara
tachino#open.nm.fujitsu.co.jp Tachino Nobuhiro
uno#open.nm.fujitsu.co.jp Shunji Uno
ito#htk.hitachi-cable.co.jp Ito Kazumitsu
kyamada#hitachi-densa.co.jp Yamada Kenji
agawa#tir.hitachi-sk.co.jp Norio Agawa
mt#izu.co.jp Masato Toyoshima
taca#kyoto.jepro.co.jp Takahiro Kambe
Shinichi_Hiramoto#justsystem.co.jp HIRAMOTO Shin-ichi
kitamura#jzf.co.jp Mikiya Kitamura
sa-sakamoto#kddwinstar.co.jp Sadayuki Sakamoto
hide#lisa.co.jp Hideyuki Ezaki
inouesin#pic.melco.co.jp Shinichi Inoue
kima#np.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp KIMATA Isao
h_inoue#netlab.co.jp Hiroshi Inoue
matz#netlab.co.jp Yukihiro Matsumoto
shugo#netlab.co.jp Shugo Maeda
kondo#nik-prt.co.jp Mitsuhiro Kondo
hmorita#ohmsha.co.jp Hisashi Morita
adachi#tpegasus.lab.okidata.co.jp Jun Adachi
miyagawa#sanritz.co.jp Seiichi Miyagawa
komatsu#sarion.co.jp Katsuyuki Komatsu
thata#net.sony.co.jp Takashi Hatakeyama
tamori#sm.sony.co.jp Hirofumi Tamori
kanematu#sra.co.jp Daiji KANEMATSU
aoki#technoa.co.jp Hirotaka AOKI
kawata#titan.co.jp Masahiro Kawata
anakata#vector.co.jp Ataru NAKATA
hengsu#winningrun.co.jp HengSu Kim
takagi#etl.go.jp Hiromitsu Takagi
irie#hri.pref.hokkaido.jp Yuji
simtak#mua.biglobe.ne.jp Takashi Shimizu
junji999#mud.biglobe.ne.jp Junzi TAKAHASHI
kyano#mva.biglobe.ne.jp YANO Kyoji
ikarashi#d3.dion.ne.jp IKARASHI Akira
marutomo#jade.dti.ne.jp INOUE Tomoichi
masao-k#a-net.email.ne.jp 金光雅夫
kai#star.email.ne.jp Kazuhiko IZAWA
ymsd#ns.m-net.ne.jp Yuichi Masuda
nnakamur#mxq.mesh.ne.jp Noritsugu Nakamura
nobu.nakada#nifty.ne.jp Nobuyoshi Nakada
felio#peanet.ne.jp YAMASHIRO Shunsuke
greentea#fa2.so-net.ne.jp Tomoyuki Kosimizu
tomokazu#pc4.so-net.ne.jp MATSUSHIMA Tomokazu
toshirok#yb3.so-net.ne.jp Toshiro Kuwabara
ozawa#mba.sphere.ne.jp Makoto Ozawa
wakou#fsinet.or.jp Wakou Aoyama
earth#hokuto7.or.jp Hisashi Wakai(earth)
shoch#jsdi.or.jp Shoichi OZAWA
ogochan#linux.or.jp
platypus#a1.mbn.or.jp Yoshinori Tahara
kaneoka#grn.mmtr.or.jp KANEOKA Shinji
noroi#mob.or.jp IKEDA Kenji
aygoofy#kt.rim.or.jp Akihiro Yamauchi
hisashim#kt.rim.or.jp hisashi y. morita
tadf#kt.rim.or.jp Tadayoshi Funaba
inaba#st.rim.or.jp Inaba Hiroto
hattori#ppp.upload.or.jp Masashi Hattori
Suketa<CQN02273#nifty.ne.jp> Masaki Suketa
h.fulton#att.net Hal Fulton
jaredr#bellsouth.net jared richardson
n8gray#earthlink.net Nathaniel Gray
rzimmerle#earthlink.net Robert Zimmerle
kikutani#galaxy.net Kikutani, Makoto
c.hintze#gmx.net Clemens Hintze
d.hintze#gmx.net Dirk Hintze
jmh#gmx.net Jan Haar
shrogers#ionet.net Steven H. Rogers
schneiker#jump.net Conrad Schneiker
MAP2303#mapletown.net Daisuke Kanda
franke#meso.net Stefan Franke
cartisan#pacwestracing.net Neal Cappel
edwards#rahul.net Gregory Edwards
evert#royal.net Evert Meulie esq
cind0revs#toadmail.toad.net Arthur J Mongan
scarblac-rt#pino.selwerd.nl Remco Gerlich
boud#rempt.xs4all.nl Boudewijn Rempt
kai.andresen#chello.no Kai Andresen
jaj39#student.canterbury.ac.nz J Alan Jackson
John_David_Galt#acm.org John David Galt
perin#acm.org Lewis Perin
sferris#acm.org Scott M. Ferris
darkskyz#cyberspace.org Tomer Brisker
crouton#duelists.org OZAWA Sakuro
quinet#gamers.org Raphael Quinet
imain#gtk.org Ian Main
h_inoue#hi-fun.org Hiro Inoue
koyama#hoge.org KOYAMA Tetsuji
jc#joerch.org Jvrg Czeranski
t#kondara.org Toru Hoshina
mentifex#scn.org Arthur T. Murray
larry#smith-house.org Larry Smith
dave#technopagan.org David E. Smith
ysjj#unixuser.org Junji Yamashita
wormboyslim#wiggly.org Nigel Rantor
mak#mikroplan.com.pl Grzegorz Makarewicz
qrczak#knm.org.pl Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
hgs#dmu.ac.uk Hugh Sasse
james#obeah.demon.co.uk James Coupe
bill#xencat.co.uk William Boughton
Voted NO
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yan#storm.ca Yves Bellefeuille
ru#cls.usask.ca Ru Igarashi
stainles#bga.com Dwight Brown
mcclenon#erols.com Bob McClenon
gprrspw#mindspring.com G.P. Ryan
rootbeer#redcat.com Tom Phoenix
pimentel#ultranet.com J Pimentel
Thilo.Ernst#gmd.de Thilo Ernst
naddy#mips.rhein-neckar.de Christian Weisgerber
rick#bcm.tmc.edu Richard H. Miller
4ws#gibsoncounty.net Kurt Weber
mmontcha#OregonVOS.net Matthew Montchalin
denebeim#deepthot.org Jay Denebeim
sthoenna#efn.org Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
phd#sun.med.ru Oleg Broytmann
chriseb#ukshells.co.uk Chris Ebenezer
Abstained
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chris#kzim.com Christopher Robin Zimmerman
sleepy#os.com Alexander Pennace
r.vanette#pink.nl Robert-Jan van Ette
james#sfgiants22.freeserve.co.uk James Farrar
merlin#netlink.co.uk Darren Wyn Rees
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