Thanks for the suggestion. I've updated SqueakSource.

Since monday it should also be a faster. The statistics on the front 
page had been calculated each time the page was rendered  which was 
quite expensive and with a lot of hits (also from robots) the server 
was not very responsive.

Adrian

On Jul 28, 2004, at 10:25 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:

> 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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