Dear Avi and all,
For Monticello 2, on the other hand, we've released plenty of information, tried to open discussion many times, asked for volunteers
I am not sure what you mean by plenty of information though. There is source code. Long ago I concluded that the "Avi" definition of "plenty of information" differs greatly from mine. How about some white papers?
at several points, but never released something that people could actually use for their daily work. Result: apart from Damien who recently got some funding to work on it, we've had no response whatsoever.
This is not strictly true.
In the spirit of incremental, and hence hopefully adoptable progress. There is a version of Monticello1 which has SystemEditor from MC2 in it, ready to use. It only took one day to put this in, I did it about 6 weeks ago, and it is ready to roll when SystemEditor works.
This despite the fact that MC2 is a much better and more ambitious design than any of the prior versions of MC.
So we are ready to go when SystemEditor from MC2 is ready. Unfortunately I dont know enough about the compilation/class composition of squeak to fix it. I will also say that SystemEditor is a really impressive bit of code, and I dont feel in any way qualified to contribute to it.
best regards
Keith