Retire rubygem-mongrel

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

On 2012-01-20 10:51, Greg Swift wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 09:27, Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If nobody objects, I am going to retire *rubygem-mongrel* and its
>> associated gems rubygem-gem_plugin, rubygem-fastthread and
>> rubygem-mongrel_cluster.
>>

Vit,

I only own rubygem-mongrel, I'm not sure who owns the other packages. 
Did you want me to go through the retirement process (need to find the 
time) or did you want to take ownership and do it yourself (probably 
fastest)?

>> Mongrel is not maintained anymore [1]. It dos not support Ruby on 
>> Rails 3
>> available in Fedora, the last supported Ruby on Rails version was 
>> 2.3.7.
>> There are available more viable Ruby web servers such as 
>> rubygem-thin. I
>> believe nobody will regret this loss.
>>
>>
> I believe the rubygem-passenger package that is being worked on for
> inclusion in fedora still requires rubygem-fastthread.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470696
>

Speaking as the originator of that package review request, I don't see 
a reason to keep rubygem-fastthread around in Fedora / EPEL for as long 
as the problems with Phusion Passenger are not actually resolved.

Last I heard, somebody at Red Hat was (is?) actively working on 
upstreaming the patches against Boost, but then Ox(?) still has to 
follow, at which stage Passenger itself still has to follow.

Since I maintain Passenger outside of Fedora anyways, I have no 
objections against also maintaining its dependencies outside of Fedora.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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