[etoys-dev] The road ahead

[Scott Wallace]

On Oct 7, 2009, at 5:40 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

...

> PS: A meta-change is that the "old" developers (Scott, Yoshiki,  
> yours truly) will stay out of actual development as much as  
> possible, and assume more of a mentor role. Development is going to  
> be driven by whatever work is volunteered, screened by the software  
> team (a.k.a. committers). So please keep the contributions coming :)


On Oct 7, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

>  Great.  Thanks Bert!
>
>  In regards to my "staying out".  From the beginning of this year, I
> was appointed to serve the software board for one year and is supposed
> to vacant the position at the end of this year.  Its purpose was
> mostly to get more developers to work on Etoys and make the
> transition.
>
>  And, this is a good time.  I see many capable people and actual
> patches are coming.  While there are bug tickets and issues that may
> have been nominally assumed to be mine, there are people who can do it
> (and do it better).  Please attack them without worrying about
> overlapping efforts.
>>


I've agreed to stay on one more year on the Squeakland, Inc. board to  
help smooth the transition (though if a more appropriate volunteer  
steps forward, I'm quite willing to step down at the end of this year.)

In any case, like Bert and Yoshiki, I intend ("as much as possible")  
to stay out of the actual development process from now on.

So... etoy developers of the world:  your moment has arrived!  It's  
very gratifying to see that several people have already stepped  
forward; may the community grow and flourish!

   -- Scott