Dear harvesters,
This weekend I built myself a new Celeste image from the stable 3.7 full image and also a new 3.8alpha image with all updates from the unstable stream. I wanted to say thank you to all of you who put that much effort into harvesting for 3.7 and now 3.8alpha!
I am afraid that nowadays I have even less time for Squeak than it used to be the case. I use up most of this time for reading the mailing list. I would like to be more helpful but I am not sure how to contribute best given my time constraints.
Although I am an experienced Smalltalk developer I feel fairly unproductive in Squeak. Often I start doing something but then trip over some unrelated problems. Suddenly the time I have is over. Probably I am not the only one in this situation. Therefore it might be a good strategy to decrease the time it takes to make a useful contribution. I do not pretend to know how to achieve this. Maybe by putting more emphasis on quality, e.g. prioritising fixes over enhancements? Slow down a little? Any other ideas?
Currently, the main bottleneck seems to be in harvesting, i.e. in moving fixes and enhancements from reviewed to approved. Is that a correct observation? If yes, is there some way to help with that other than becoming a harvester? What do you consider the best way to contribute for someone with an hour here and there?
Thanks again to all the contributors for such an inspiring piece of software!
- Bernhard
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