I sort of agree - there is a lot of work going on and its difficult for 
the core people to absorb it.
My personal pet desire is to get some kind of date/time/timezone thing 
in there so you could have a couple squeaks on machines in different 
locations and still have coordinated time.  The ansi fixes on squeak 
map provide a fairly simple mechanism - I'd like to see them adopted.  
The timezone database is probably a more complete solution, but the 
current Timestamp that downloads with SqueakMap is not solution at all 
because its naive about time zones.




On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 12:19  PM, <diegogomezdeck at consultar.com> 
wrote:

> Hi guys...
>
> The following is an email I'm thinking to write for weeks.
>
> To say it shortly: Squeak is dieing in front of us...
>
> Since SqC leaves the "dictatorship" role we don't find the way to
> continue.  Despite the apparent organization and procedures we had 
> created,
> simply in the last months we was not able to satisfy the expectations.
>
> To probe my point just take a look to the amount of fixes waiting for
> approval and the changes produced by MCP and KCP.
>
> Personally, I paused my work in MCP until something happens in our
> community.  I invest most of my free time in Squeak and I don't feel 
> this
> sacrifice is producing results.
>
>> From my point of view We're trying to organize so much, and in the 
>> reality
> we have pages and pages describing a process (the harvesting process) 
> that
> don't work.  The bureaucracy is killing us.  The steps to get a fix
> approved are, in most of the cases, more difficult and time consumer 
> than
> the fix itself.  We have lists of people with roles (guides, 
> harvesters,
> etc) but in the reality only a few of them are active and working.
>
> We have big problems and I don't feel the community realize of it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Diego Gomez Deck
>
> PS: I'm talking for my own and my thoughts are not the MCP-team 
> opinions.
>
>
>
>