[ANN] Unstable Squeak

Diego Gomez Deck DiegoGomezDeck at ConsultAr.com
Sat Sep 25 17:01:53 UTC 2004


Avi,

It's sound really interesting!

Let's play with it for a while.

Cheers,

-- Diego

> Ok, here goes.  From the article I just posted to Squeak People :
> 
> "I'd like to announce Unstable Squeak: an experimental fast-moving, 
> community-based developer-oriented distribution of Squeak. Unstable 
> Squeak leverages Squeak Source, Squeak People, and Monticello to try to 
> present an alternative model for incoporating fixes and enhancements 
> from the community with a minimum of process.
> 
>   Unstable Squeak is an experiment in two parts. As a social experiment, 
> it's an attempt to use trust networks and community dynamics, rather 
> than a lengthy review process, to ensure the quality of contributions. 
> The Unstable Squeak repository is open for anyone to commit changes to, 
> and any of a large group of developers (those with Journeyer status or 
> above on Squeak People) may "bless" these changes to be immediately 
> included in the Unstable Squeak distribution. As a technical 
> experiment, it's an attempt to build the infrastructure required to 
> support this more ad-hoc approach to development, using the Monticello 
> versioning system as a base. Hopefully, the technology built for 
> Unstable Squeak will eventually be refined to the point where it can be 
> adopted by mainstream Squeak as well."
> 
> Read the rest of the article here, and let me know your thoughts (or 
> better yet, just participate in the experiment):
> http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/39.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Avi





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