Update stream ideas for 3.8 (was Re: Squeak 3.8 status)
danielv at tx.technion.ac.il
danielv at tx.technion.ac.il
Wed Aug 11 22:55:51 UTC 2004
Utter Chaos.
Doesn't sound to me like the most certain way to get a quick and stable
3.8 release, but it does sound like a fun and interesting experiment ;-)
Daniel
Michael Rueger <michael at squeakland.org> wrote:
> 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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