Brice,

Do you have a a rubyforge account/email that I can use when requesting
that you are added as an admin? I can't seem to get the `gem owner`
command to respect my authoritay...

//Ed

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> If you're unable to contact the original authors, you can contact the folks who maintain rubygems.org, and ask them to give you the rights to release a new version of the gem from (and pointing to) your repo, and effectively take over the gem.
>
> Alternately, in your fork you link to, you should update the instructions to make it clear that to install this fork, "gem install" isn't going to do it!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brice Stacey
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 1:25 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-zoom port to 1.9.2
>
> FYI -
>
>
>
> I've finished porting ruby-zoom to 1.9.2, including the extended
> services. Repo is here: https://github.com/bricestacey/ruby-zoom
>
>
>
> I reached out to the original authors and haven't gotten a response, so
> it looks like it might never be integrated into the original project. If
> anyone has any ideas on how I might get these changes into it, please
> let me know.
>
>
>
> Brice Stacey
>
>
>
> From: Brice Stacey
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 11:08 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: ruby-zoom port to 1.9.2
>
>
>
> Hi -
>
>
>
> I'd just like to let everyone know I did some work yesterday on
> ruby-zoom to port most of the code to 1.9.2. All of the standard z39.50
> features are ported. The only feature left is the packages, which allow
> for the extended services.
>
>
>
> I'd appreciate anyone that uses it to provide feedback.
>
>
>
> The git repository can be found here:
> https://github.com/bricestacey/ruby-zoom
>
>
>
> Installation:
>
> Install YAZ
>
> Clone the repo
>
> Run rake clean build package
>
> Gem install pkg/zoom-0.4.1
>
>
>
> If anyone has experience working with C and/or YAZ and would like to
> help finish this port off, I'd greatly appreciate it. Otherwise, I'll
> probably just drop the support entirely from my fork (since I won't need
> it going forward anyway). I've also contacted the original authors,
> hopefully they follow-up.
>
>
>
> Brice Stacey
>
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> 617-287-5921
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