What does it take to buy in to Squeak (was RE: Stef's departure from the SqueakFoundation board)

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Aug 21 09:04:09 UTC 2006


Milan Zimmermann <milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca> writes:
> 	1) "The Board" would start with defining what Squeak is - "Squeak" as a small 
> "SqueakCore" plus "Packages"  - Unfortunately I can only be intuitive here, 
> not saying I know what should be in "SqueakCore", likely it would be much 
> smaller than current Squeak, without Morphic, MVC (UI loadable, is that 
> possible?)
> 
> 	2) "The Board" would steer the community to achieve separating the 
> "SqueakCore", and promote _tools_ that help achieving the separation, and 
> "re-loadability" of some most important packages.
> 
> 	3) Once the separation is done, "The Board" would be repsonsible for steering 
> "SqueakCore" _only_.


Sounds good to me.  I would like to see a body organizing Squeakers
more than anything else, and this is the way to do it.  I wouldn't put
it so strongly, though: in addition to arbitrating the maintenance of
the core part, there is a place for helping people exchange their
Squeak addons.

Also, Squeak would continue to evolve the Squeak we know.  Discussions
about tossing it and starting from the ground up are interesting but
off topic.  If you want to do that, then you are free, but Squeak's
organization should take care of Squeak.

-Lex




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