On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 08:19:37PM -0500, Chris
Muller wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at
10:20 AM, Chris Cunnington <brasspen@gmail.com>
wrote:
Jesus, that was an
unpleasant tour of my own mind.
LOL!!!
I am not amused. We used to have a good web presence
hosted on the excellent
and well-supported Aida web framework.
That site was in need of updates
to
its content and design.
We now have a site that is running on software that
seems to be poorly
understood by most of us, including the one person in
the community who
is willing and able to work on it.
Updating a single broken link requires tortuous mental
excursions? Really?!?
And there is only one person who can do it?
Seriously?!?
The link to squeaksource.com
is updated.
Thank you.
You’re welcome. And thank you for saying thank you.
You’re rant is heartfelt, but pretty much wrong on every
point. I don’t mind though, I think your rant is sort of
transitional. Sometimes people complain when things are getting
better. I had a history teacher, Mr. Godfrey, who made it clear
that people don’t cry for revolution when they’re downtrodden.
They do it when they have made a gain they don’t want to lose.
You didn’t talk like this in 2012. And that you are talking like
this is probably a good thing. You’re famous for being tactful.
I don’t think I’ve seen you cut loose like this, so that’s all
to the good.
Aida was a well supported web framework? Nope. Software
always requires support. Ultimately there is no software only
people to tend things. Janko had become staggering difficult to
deal with. All efforts were made to accommodate him. No dice.
Poorly understood software? I think that’s called growth.
Altitude is cool. Xtreams is cool. It’s worth taking a few pains
to grow and evolve things. Stasis, I’d say, was what helped
contributed to some of the problems Squeak is working to recover
from. A single broken link equals torturous mental excursions?
Not really. I was in an off state of mind making problems for
myself. You only know that, because if I make a mistake, it’s my
policy to alert that community that something is amiss. I
consider that being professional. My personality is my
personality, but that is my policy.
I’d like to point out also, that with regards to the
homepage, I’m changing the nature of silence. With the
“well-supported Aida web framework” silence, which everybody
could edit, but only one person could code changes into, it
meant slow bit rot and everybody could feel it. Silence meant
decay. Now things are different. I check the site every day.
It’s like a 747 where there are long periods of nothing
happening and then brief periods of turbulence, which I make you
explicitly aware of. Silence now means ‘All is well’.
Only one person who can do it? Is that a problem? Only Janko
could code Aida. I recall passing out the code for
squeak.org.
Tim’s looked it over. Do you like Xtreams? Yes? Well this is
part of the process of growing towards incorporating them.
I cannot wait to hear what you’ve got to say about the
SqueakMap server I’m still working on. Feel free to freak out
about it, David. You’ll use it and be glad you did. And if I may
so, the UI is shaping up pretty well. I’m shearing all the
goggle-eyed-programmer-madness that usually infests user
interfaces built by excellent programmers.
Keep your chin up. If you keep ranting, I’ll have to quote
Tampico’s most famous son at you and say: “There you go again!”.
(It worked on Jimmy.)