confused by rest local rest remote

[Daniel Vainsencher]

I agree that there is some benefit that is gained only when a 
contribution makes it into the official streams, and therefore the 
continuity of the official stream does matter.

However, sometimes that has to be disturbed. Looking at another 
community, sometimes Linus goes on vacation. But the important thing is 
that when he gets back, he merges lots and lots of patches, because 
there's lots of patches that have been accumulating in a ready state in 
other peoples repositories.

So I think its important to figure out how to do everything that can be 
done outside the official stream to help the official stream work 
better. It used to be reviews and testing, and that worked to some 
extent (wasn't great). Now we have similar activities in Mantis, and I 
think that is insufficient in pretty much the same ways (not enough 
people doing it, because its too far outside Squeak, and there's no 
immediate benefit, and I think the email notifications aren't smart 
enough - needs something like roundup).

I think what we need is more people merging in other peoples stuff and 
putting the merged versions in public repositories. When someone bothers 
to merge something and put it out publically, they're probably telling 
you something quite meaningful about it. We still don't have a way to 
gather this feedback, but that wouldn't be hard (show all descendants of 
a version to see who is using some variation on it, and what variations 
exist).

Daniel

Marcus Denker wrote:
> I don't think the direct process of harvesting is the most important  
> part here, but getting an "official"
> image out there with the bugs fixed... having the fixes in the inbox  in 
> mc is not too different then having
> them in mantis, somehow... people who know that they need them could  
> install them, but the
> image downloaded does not have them, nor do you see them when loading  
> updates...
> 
>      Marcus
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