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 > > Digital Library Services > > University of Massachusetts Boston > > [log in to unmask] > > 617-287-5921 > > >