On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 08:15 AM, Hans Nikolaus Beck wrote:

> Hi,
>
> sorry for my ignorance - just for understanding:  what is
> - SqC

squeak central the previous disney group.

> - MCP
Morph cleaning project

> - KCP ???
Kernel cleaning project

Both goals are to clean and produce a better Squeak.


>
> Greetings
>
>
> Hans
>
>
> Am Sonntag, 04.05.03 um 20:19 Uhr schrieb 
> <diegogomezdeck at consultar.com>:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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