Avi,
I think that your suggestion is a good one.
(I have now changed the global visibility of Shout, on SqueakSource, to
read)
Cheers,
Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Avi Bryant" <avi at beta4.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:25 PM
Subject: default visibility on SqueakSource


> Currently, the default global visibility of any new projects created on
> SqueakSource is "no access".  Since most people don't bother to change
> it, this means that SqueakSource is much less useful than it could be -
> it's generally impossible to track the development of a package you're
> interested in, since the only things visible are official releases.
> For example, I can tell from the activity that there are several new
> development versions of Shout, but have no way to get them.
>
> My assumption is that most developers don't actually want to hide their
> development (though some may, of course), and so I'd like to recommend
> two things:
>
> - that the default for new projects be changed to Read
> - that anyone with a project already on SqueakSource who doesn't mind
> others tracking their development, change the settings on their
> project.  To do this, login to SqueakSource, choose your project from
> the sidebar on the left, then choose "Edit Project..." from the same
> sidebar.  Most of the way down the page will be a select box labelled
> "Global".  Change this to "Read", and hit Save.
>
> Cheers,
> Avi
>
>
>


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