I think he had a valid issue and brought it forward in a responsible manner. He's trying to teach Ruby to a classroom of beginners and the first thing you have to tell them is to ignore hundreds of lines of scary-looking deprecation notices every time they run a valid and correct command. That's not what should be happening. The title may have been a bit facetious, admittedly (I didn't notice it at first due to the mess that is RubyForge), but the actual issue body was straightforward.