Forum: JRuby JRuby 1.6.8 LIVES.but depends on you!

Ok, by popular demand we have decided we will spin one more JRuby 1.6
release in 1.6.8.

In order to keep JRuby 1.7 moving forward, we (JRuby core) will
probably not spend a lot of cycles backporting fixes from master, but
we're looking to community members to send us pull requests. David
Kellum started the process already by backporting a few dozen fixes
from master to our 1.6 branch here:
https://github.com/jruby/jruby/pull/244

I'm verifying his version of 1.6 and will likely push the changes 
shortly.

We'd like to spin this fairly quickly -- like within a week or two
maximum -- so now is the time to get your favorite fix backported.
Here's my recommendation:

* Stick to small fixes. There have been rewrites of several classes on
master, and as a result recent patches will be harder to backport. New
one-off fixes are acceptable.
* Avoid 1.9 behavioral fixes unless they can be done simply. Master is
the path forward for 1.9 support, and lots of rework has already
happened.
* Your backports must be clean when running "ant test-extended", "rake
spec:ci_interpreted_18" and "rake ci_interpreted_19", at minimum. Like
I said, we're not going to spend a lot of cycles on bad backports.
* Ideally, backports should be one-per-pull request so we can discuss
and review them individually, but this isn't a strict rule.

JRuby 1.6 lives on the jruby-1_6 branch, so that's your target.

GO GO GO!

- Charlie