Hi Diego,

> Who will work on 3.8 release and when?

Michael would be the head for integration with Yoshiki at the helm for any 
more complex m17n issues (AFAIK, this just works out for all of us in 
preparation of OOPSLA). Ned and I would probably do some "go and look over 
bugs and fixes" stuff. And of course we'd hope for help from as many people 
as possible but we're willing to deal organizationally with these issues if 
we have to (e.g., like I said I don't consider it to be our problem to 
actually *fix* anything - just to make sure that fixes get looked at and 
aren't forgotten).

> And who will work on 3.9 release and when?

That is a good question. If we time it right, then the work could partially 
overlap. For example, the work on 3.9 might focus on anything that needs to 
be fixed, changed, whatever to get in sync with the Small-Land release but 
no more. Who exactly would work on this I cannot say since I can't say where 
most of the work would actually be. For 3.8 (the m17n release) it's fairly 
clear that we need to make sure where the issues (and solutions are). I have 
no good grasp on the Small-Land integration for 3.9.

> If we spent 2 months just waiting for answers, how is supposed we can
> agree on any schedule?

That's the €1,000,000 question isn't it?! ;-) The only way to say for sure 
is to actually agree and do things. And I realize that we screwed up here 
over the last two months and we're eager to fix this.

> We can just rearrange the everybody's schedules based on the demand of
> one part of the community.

I understand this. And get me right, my proposal wasn't a "demand" - it was 
an attempt to see if we can still have the release that we're mostly 
interested in, one that is in sync with Squeakland without major 
modifications to Squeakland.

Cheers,
  - Andreas