[Setools] Introduction

[goran at krampe.se]

Hi Adrien!

Adrien Sebbane <adrien.sebbane at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I just joined the squeak mailing list and created an account on Squeak 
> Map although I know Squeak for almost two years.
> For various reasons I could not spend much time to try and write a lot 
> of lines of Smalltalk, but know I have more time for myself, so I would 
> like to get involved in the Squeak development process.
> 
> I'm an IT engineer, I have skills in other programming languages as 
> Java, C++, Perl, Python, Ruby and also in Smalltalk although I am far 
> from beeing an expert with that last one.
> 
> I read the "Community" part of Squeak web site, but I do not really know 
> where to start.
> 
> So if you agree to accept my contribution, maybe someone could tell me 
> what's next.

It all depends on what you want to do. :) Squeak is a large community
with tons of projects going on in parallell.
This list (setools) was created specifically to support various efforts
in "tools for software engineering". This can be new kinds of browsers -
the OmniBrowser base is getting more and more traction, or any other
kind of tool of course. :)

One project that happens to be housed on this list (we are thinking of
possibly creating our own) is Gjallar - an advanced open source web
based issue tracker. We have www.gjallar.se with more info about it.

If issue tracking sounds interesting, then join us on IRC on channel
#gjallar - or just reply to this post. :) We gladly want more developers
getting into the Gjallar code base.

Gjallar is still in development but getting closer and closer to a very
interesting "state". We are using it for Gjallar itself already - but
then we are not pushing its capabilities. Gjallar is not only for "bug
tracking" - it is built for more diverse and advanced needs and is quite
capable/promising in its design and technology.
 
> Best regards
> Greetings
> 
> Adrien Sebbane
> 
> ps: I'm french so excuse me if I look awkward in my expressions !
> :)

No problem!

regards, Göran