<story><title>The Official Ruby Site Is Proudly Maintained by No-One</title><url>http://www.rubyinside.com/official-ruby-site-not-so-good-5248.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Argorak</author><text>As one of the maintainers of the german version of ruby-lang.org/de, I think that the article fails to explain the scope of ruby-lang and the pain to maintain it. Ruby is - much more then other programming languages - internationally spread (japan/western world being the greatest divide). At the moment, there are 20 translations (released and unreleased) of the site, which means that all new content has to be introduced to the site and then translated and maintained by the corresponding teams. So the scope of the site has to be small, nothing compared to php.net or the like.&lt;p&gt;First of all: not all of these problems are present in other versions of the site. The german page for example is much more up-to-date when it comes to installation options and explaining them, also when it comes to announcements about the german ruby community. The german site is also well staffed with 3 maintainers (if I remember correctly).&lt;p&gt;I would have preferred if ruby-inside would have wrote a mail to the maintainer list before posting this: usually, problems that we are aware of get fixed quickly.&lt;p&gt;ruby-lang certainly has its problems and the post hits some of them, but it is far from unmaintained.&lt;p&gt;The positive effect of this post: a bunch of new volunteers applying.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Official Ruby Site Is Proudly Maintained by No-One</title><url>http://www.rubyinside.com/official-ruby-site-not-so-good-5248.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acme</author><text>I suspect it&apos;s because Ruby hackers like to write modules, not document or maintain websites.</text></comment>