Hi all

I wish a lot of good energy to the Guides.
Two small suggestions:

- I remember when Anthony produced the first version of
his BC. He asked people to help him to find bugs and in ***no*** time 
he got
a lot of excellent tests that caught a lot of vicious bugs.
This was making me think: even if I do not know how to implement a 
complex
stuff like BC, I'm still smart enough to write good tests.

You see where I want to go: it would be good that the Guides set the 
target
for one system for a given period of time and ask tests for it. This 
could be
one way to get good test suites. I would like in the future (not now)
the Guides to use the community in that kind of way.

- It would be good to have a list of beasts that should be cleaned.
For example there are years now that roel (he is expert in AST walking 
in oop,
in logic progr), is feed up that the bad relationship between the 
parser and the compiler.
So if the Guides would ask for a cleaning of the AST and compiler 
interfaces I'm sure
they could get competent people to sign for a task. We could have even 
cleaning parties.

My point is that there is a lot of excellent people around that were 
not contributing
because contributing cost time and this was frustrating to see that 
efforts were not
used (which I understand also because I saw how the harvesting process 
was a daunting
task so I'm not complaining against anything just stating a simple 
fact).

So to summarize, I think that the idea of responsibility is important, 
but if the guides
would ask for some group to organize on specific targets, this would be 
a way to
have serious cleaning.

Stef

PS: Just an impression for SM and other tools. This is great to see you
running like hell. Continue!!! Take breath from time to time ;)
I imagine that lot of people can be afraid by the number of cs 
exchanged ;).
This is great to see all this energy emerging.

I have the impression to see Squeak really becoming open-source.
Even if we should pay attention that SqC made a extremely good job at 
keeping
the system running and somehow coherent. So I would really like to see 
these
experts guys continuing to keeping the boot floating.


Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
  "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
  might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes