Cees de Groot <cg at cdegroot.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 20:56, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> > > It's not something I see happening in Squeak tomorrow ;-)
> >=20
> > Where do you see the problems? lack of know-how, tools, energy,=20
> > too low number of participants?
> >
> Lack of infrastructure and lack of experience of exactly what's needed
> to reproduce the Zen of Debian in our world. Nothing unsurmountable, and
> if any group is going to pull it off, it's the Squeak community, but it
> will not happen overnight. It will take time to build up the
> infrastructure and experience.

I am not so afraid of the infrastructure - there isn't terribly much
work on SM before we can have something similar. IMHO. But experience
and also rewiring all the other different processes that we are used to
within the community will take time.

For example - the update stream will disappear and "Squeak" as we know
it will turn into a coordinated set of packages. That is the big thing -
but we are already seeing that te community is moving itself in this
direction - almost hungrily for more functions like package releases and
dependencies, load scripts etc.

And just so you know - I am working hard on SM. :-)

regards, Göran