Update stream ideas for 3.8 (was Re: Squeak 3.8 status)
Michael Rueger
michael at squeakland.org
Wed Aug 11 20:22:11 UTC 2004
Avi Bryant wrote:
>
> But that's no fun. There seems to be a lot of talk about what might and
> might not work, when we could just be trying it out. What's to lose?
> Say we build an "unstable" stream that ends up being a complete mess -
> the only people that are affected are those that were tracking that
> stream, and they can't have been expecting much anyway.
>
> I suggest we try The Simplest Possible Thing, which is probably this:
> set up an alternate update stream, publish a code snippet that lets
> anyone point their image to it, and hand out the upload password to
> everyone with Master certification on SqP. Then step back and see what
> happens. My guess is that, like wikis, the system will be more robust
> than you give it credit for: if someone publishes a bad update, someone
> else will quickly remove it, and life will go on.
Thank you for stating my opinion so eloquently :-) ;-)
Except for the fact that I never registered on SqP, but that's a
different topic ;-)
Michael
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