Charles Oliver Nutter

See aaea124.

We are also facing a serious breakage due to the abrupt RubyGems.org v1 API removal. What's serious? The entirety of JRuby's build process for installing standard library gems will break...

See https://github.com/torquebox/jruby-maven-plugins/issues/124 for the issue that finally brought this deprecation to our attention. I want to make clear... we missed the memo on this, and will play catch-up to make...

I think it's also worth pointing out that this removal date is just days before RubyKaigi, so anyone like me preparing talks for that conference will be **unable to build...

A follow-up here... We worked out with the rubygems.org maintainers to whitelist JRuby's uses of the dependencies API until August (8th, I believe) so that we'd have time to adjust...

The modifications to mavengem in jruby/mavengem#9 are largely complete, and I've confirmed that JRuby's build works properly with mavengem even when altering the user-agent to something other than `Java`. That...

Yeah, I don't have a good fix for this problem at the moment. The issue is that JRuby 1.6.3 also had an extension for Rubinius core APIs, but it only...

We have an immediate need for a no-op `date` gem due to it being a transitive dependency of many libraries, including `time` 0.2.0. Could we push an empty `-java` platform...

@hsbt Sorry to always ping you but I can't tell who maintains this library. Can you help us get an empty `date` gem released, so JRuby 9.4 users will be...

@hsbt Yes that is basically it; it would satisfy the gem dependency but not install any of the extension code. We may be able to move our date implementation into...