Smalltalk and Self
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Sep 1 18:02:46 UTC 2005
On 1 sept. 05, at 19:04, Victor Rodriguez wrote:
> BTW, I have been lurking in the mailing list for a while now, and
> still I do not have a clear picture of who the leaders of Squeak are.
> At any rate, Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls do not seem to have any
> involvment in Squeak any more.
I would not say that.
Alan is directing ViewPointResearch and lot of projects there are
using Squeak.
> So, who are the Squeak leaders?
Good question!
Do you mean who take
- the responsibility to check the fixes, collect the good stuff
(such as the new compiler that was left freely but never integrated....)
- the responsibility to make sure that people developing real
applications with Squeak (seasiders, tweaker (may be in the future)...)
> Whose responsibility is it to decide the immediate future of Squeak?
I do not know. We (marcus and me) proposed a roadmap for 3.9 since
september last year and we are trying to make it real without
frustrating people that require stability. So this is juggling
between improving, going forward and making sure that the system gets
improved.
If you want to know where 3.9 is headed read the roadmap we proposed
and we are making.
Other people are helping:
impara people providing fixes, support for a lot of libraries
yoshiki for the effort on internationalisation
doug for helping to put in place the new package system based on
MC and Squeaksource
Stef
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