An uncomfortable question

danielv at netvision.net.il danielv at netvision.net.il
Thu Oct 24 20:41:50 UTC 2002


Well, I think something interesting is happening in SqueakMap. The count
is now up to 16 packages, by 8 different authors. These range from small
framework additions like SharedStreams to large projects that would be
unlikely to ever become available through the Squeak base image, like
Seaside.

This opens up directly possibilities to maintain other projects outside
the image too, like Celeste, Scamper and others.

All this should reduce the maintainance effort required of SqC, and let
the community do experiments in various directions without actually
requiring a fork.

A case in point - if Henrik's code was first debuted as a SM package, it
would have gotten earlier feedback, it could have been more modular, it
would have been easier for people to try out and it would have been
optional, orthogonal to the harvesting work done on 3.3a. 

This would have saved us at least one uncomfortable question.

So I think one important thing to consider is how we take full advantage
of this new option we have as a community, and how we change our process
to fit it in.

Daniel

Dan Ingalls <Dan at SqueakLand.org> wrote:
> >Dan Ingalls <Dan at SqueakLand.org> is claimed by the authorities to have written:
> >> In less than two weeks at least 3 of us (and maybe you, too, Andrew?)
> >> will be together at the Hackers Conference, and I hereby commit to
> >> report whatever clarity we can achieve regarding both technical
> >> direction and community participation from this corner.
> 
> and Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> responded...
> >Unfortunately I _won't_ be able to make it this year :-( You'd get a
> >much better size audience at oopsla, which I will.
> 
> I didn't mean to imply a Squeak-wide forum.  This is just a chance for three different parts of SqC to get together (we're normally spread all over) to formulate some internal plans.  After that, we can at least be clear about where we are headed, to the extent that may catalyze other strategies among the Squeak community at large.
> 
> 	- Dan



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