So far I'm not really a fan of forking RubyGems, but I am concerned with the solution you mentioned for compatibility with Rails (which I take as a good metaphor for any large Ruby project) — a new point release. How is that going to work for people on Rails 2.2 or other projects with incompatibilities?
Has anyone discussed emailing the authors specified in the gemspecs of the gems that will be breaking with these upcoming changes?
What Bundler does is run CI against RubyGems so they get automatically notified of issues. It seems like Rails should possibly consider doing that as well. However, there seems like there will be more communications between Rails<->RubyGems members in the future.
Has anyone discussed emailing the authors specified in the gemspecs of the gems that will be breaking with these upcoming changes?