Joseph,
StSq was released at this point "In the interest of getting this proto release into as many hands and minds as possible". Hands and minds means comments, complaints and fixes.
Your comments on the StSq list:
"We don't need more traffic. This list consists of two groups - the StSq developers (a paltry few), and the lurkers. Let's keep it this way"
seem to suggest that input from anyone, including other developers, is not welcome. I don't believe that this was the intention of the Squeak World Tour.
Many of the concerns expressed on this list are not unfounded. If StSq becomes the pink-plane basis of *our* Squeak, its functioning will impact us all. We're not all just looking for a free Visual Works to base our work on. Many of us share SqC's vision of the "personal computing environment". If the *real* computer revolution is going to happen with Squeak, the pink-plane is going to have to follow the blue-plane into the clouds.
Now is a good time to comment. Yesterday perhaps, would have been better.
Cheers, Wiebe
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Andreas Kuckartz [mailto:a.kuckartz@dokom.net] Verzonden: 03 June 2001 12:30 Aan: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu Onderwerp: Re: [BUG][FIX]Unstable Squeak Won't Load Modules on Macintosh
Lots of complaints here. People want a preview of a work-in-progess, and then complain that not everything works.
If the StSq-people are reading bug reports (and fixes) and suggestions from people who spent some time with StSq as complaints then it really might be better for others not to spend time with it at all.
Is that what you are suggesting?
I think open source projects which are not perceptive for users reactions are about as bad as hidden source projects.
Andreas
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