[Pkg] Volunteer Custodians wanted

Keith Hodges keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Fri May 16 16:51:27 UTC 2008


Dear All,

Having setup packages at lists.squeakfoundation.org , I would like to get 
the Packages Teams going once more. I am looking for volunteers to look 
after the package definitions for each of the major Squeak releases. The 
objective being to get as many packages as possible available in any and 
all of the squeak base images.

In particular it would be good to have one "custodian" for each of 3.7, 
3.8 , 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, Croquet, etoys OLPC and Pharo.
Since 3.7, and 3.9/10 have been able to adopt the definitions from 
Universes, this leaves 3.8 looking rather unsupported.

Responsibilities of Custodians.

1. Learn some of the finer points of the Sake/Packages system.
2. Do a first pass of the package definitions, defining the unstable and 
stable definitions in their branch.
this should at least enable users to attempt to load of most packages 
into that version, thus starting the feedback loop.

3. Check feedback on any packages which do not load as expected and 
update package definitions accordingly.
4. Flag any packages which should load but need a fix or two

any takers?

best regards

Keith

p.s. if you are using an older version of squeak feel free to join in, 
and we can see about finding a way to get the tools support in your image.








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