[Release] Some more questions

[Keith Hodges]

Hi -
>
> Being the new liaison and such I've done some more reading and I'm
> having a couple of questions trying to understand how the release team
> works. First off, who exactly is the release team? Can I ask the
> member of the release team to send a quick ping to show that they are
> present and able to communicate? ;-)
>
> Second, I'm still trying to figure out where we're going in 3.11. I
> have not yet seen much of a goal and I'm still very much unclear on
> where we are. I'm not asking Keith specifically, I'm asking *every*
> member of the release team to communicate their expectations about
> when 3.11 is to be considered done. This will either tell me that
> there is a good internal understanding of what 3.11 constitutes and
> help me sharing this understanding or it'll show that I'm not the only
> one who is confused about where we stand and where we're going. Either
> way it will be helpful.
>
> Lastly, I was flabbergasted when I looked at
> http://ftp.squeak.org/3.11/  I expected to find 3.11 versions but
> instead I find every Squeak version under the sun *except* 3.11.
Bob hasnt built 3.11 yet, I ran out of time.
> Does anyone know what these versions have to do with 3.11 and why they
> should be in the 3.11 directory? Is this just a mistake or is there
> reasoning behind that structure?
>
> Thanks for any info,
>   - Andreas
The directory you see is simply an rsync of the output of bob for public
access. It is in 3.11 because that was the only directory Ken would give
me access to.

3.11 is about a process, a process involving Bob. The idea is that
people working on innovations for squeak do so in relation to a fixed,
rather than a moving target.

So you would end up with 3.10-build 3.10-closures 3.10-lpf
3.10-namespace 3.10-new-sources 3.10+relicence 3.10-reorganised

3.11 is then an integration of the above.

3.11-test = 3.10 + build + reorg + test
3.11 = 3.10 + build + reorg

Keith