Pratik joins core, retired members go alumni

Posted by David March 26, 2008 @ 09:33 PM

We’re shaking up the Rails core group a bit. First, please welcome Pratik Naik as the newest member of the group.

He’s been doing great work all around the framework and has been spearheading both the documentation branch in git and a thorough cleanup of Action View internals. We’re really happy to hand him the commit keys to the repository.

Second, we’ve created the Rails core alumni for all the proud members of the core group who are no longer in the day-to-day improvement of the framework itself. All of the alumni are still busy working in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem, but either have their hands full with their business or has dedicated their open source time to other initiatives.

We’re incredibly grateful for all the works you guys have done for Ruby on Rails over the years. And you’re all welcome back in the active core group any time you decide. Thanks guys!

Finally, this means that the current active core group is about half its former size. We’d like to add a few more to that, so hopefully we can pick a few more people who’ve been doing varied work on the framework for a sustained period of time soon.

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  1. Joel on 26 Mar 21:58:

    Congrats and thanks for your work lifo.

  2. Bernd on 26 Mar 22:01:

    You might want to check the URLs of the alumni guys. Tobias Lütke’s Hieraki, and Liquid links are broken..

  3. Jack Danger Canty on 26 Mar 23:29:

    Congrats to lifo, it’s a well-earned promotion.

    It’s great to see the team get refactored :-)

  4. Mislav on 27 Mar 02:13:

    Go lifo! WohohooO!!1

  5. chitral on 27 Mar 02:38:

    Congrats lifo!

  6. Anonyman on 27 Mar 03:18:

    Does this mean that Rails development is slowing down? Or does it mean that Rails is in a particularly stable place at the moment and no longer needs as much attention?

  7. leethal on 27 Mar 08:27:

    Oh hai, lifo. Nice pic, and yarr!

  8. Chu Yeow on 27 Mar 08:40:

    Well-deserved and “finally” lifo :)

  9. blj on 27 Mar 09:28:

    Good luck Pratik

  10. Vincent Spehner on 27 Mar 09:38:

    Well done Boss. You are a king. Thanks for your previous contributions.

  11. Jocelyn on 27 Mar 10:24:

    Like in… last in, first out?

    Hope not ;)

  12. DHH on 27 Mar 14:12:

    Anonyman, quite the contrary. It simply means that some of the original core members have decided to focus their energy on other things and that we’re making sure that the current core list only includes people who are active on a day-to-day basis.

  13. Chris on 27 Mar 17:52:

    Congrats lifo! Glad to see Rails moving forward in such a positive direction.

  14. Pratik on 27 Mar 20:12:

    Thanks all !

    I think I’m gonna have to change my real name officially ;-)

  15. Anil on 27 Mar 20:13:

    Congratulations Pratik!

  16. Shane on 27 Mar 21:00:

    Gratz!

  17. Sam Granieri on 28 Mar 00:56:

    Congrats Pratik!

  18. Ikai Lan on 28 Mar 17:32:

    I’m glad to see Pratik on this team. His contributions (http://m.onkey.org/) have been numerous!

  19. Arun on 29 Mar 17:41:

    Congrats Mr.Null :)

  20. gitguy on 30 Mar 19:02:

    hey, congrats there ;)

  21. wildchild on 31 Mar 00:38:

    Stay on rails!

  22. Siva on 31 Mar 09:13:

    Congrats NULL ;)

  23. OldSchoolDevelopment on 01 Apr 18:08:

    Rails still has a core team… that seems pretty old school, like Soviet old school.

  24. VIRENDRA on 02 Apr 12:51:

    Congrates and I am proud of you

  25. Asim on 11 Apr 03:27:

    Congrats and even I’m proud of you!

  26. Paul on 14 Apr 08:07:

    Grad Text, with nice Pic..

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