Roadmap (January2007 June2007)

Table of Contents February March April May June, July

This development outline is based on post to mailing list.

February

• Official Rails support based on Rails 1.2
• Rails support (via JRuby) in GlassFish or Web 2.0 Pack
• First public release of NetBeans Ruby support? (maybe sooner)
• Big 0.9 release (0.9.8 or similar to convey importance)

March

• Compiler earlies, potential JIT, likely faster than Ruby (the compiler is now consistently faster than Ruby 1.8, but is not yet enabled by default)
• Rounding out features: native Unicode, Java integration (final syntax,

perf improvements, thinning the proxy boundary) (Much of Java integration syntax is now final; however a large amount of backward-compatible redesign is planned for post 1.0)

April

• Final release before 1.0 (0.9.9, likely)
• Closing out 1.0 features, decide what makes it in
• Major bug-hunting push, 1.0 release branch
• Getting ducks in a row for JavaOne

May

• Release 1.0 beta or RC, announce at JavaOne 2007 (beta or RC was chosen because JavaOne will drive a lot of bug-finders to JRuby; better to call it a beta or RC and release 1.0 final later than to immediately release 1.1 after JavaOne)
• RailsConf 2007, continue the celebration
• Cooling off: let 1.0 sink in, work on transparent improvements

(compiler, backend; ease back features)

June, July

• JRuby 1.0 final release, after a good several weeks of bake time
• Move toward 1.1, improving Ruby/Java integration and Rubifying more libraries
• Continuing work on the compiler, aiming for JIT enabled in 1.1