A process proposal for 3.10

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 17 18:58:39 UTC 2006


>From: Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: A process proposal for 3.10
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:45:26 -0700
>
>out of the room). At least for me, this project came out of the blue, 
>completely unforeseen and again nothing you could have possibly planned 
>for.
>

Me too.

>Which brings me to the proposal I made earlier. The main goal of that 
>proposal is really to get away from the upfront feature planning process 
>and deal with the chaotic reality of open source development by *embracing* 
>it. So instead of feature list of things that we SHOULD do, I'd like us to 
>discuss things we HAVE done. Instead of wishful thinking I'd like us to 
>talk about all the cool stuff that is actually happening!
>

As usual, I agree with most everything you said.  To this point I would say, 
while I do agree with most of it, I find it also good to have some kind of 
list of "wants" and "really should have's", so people with spare time can go 
see where they could make a big impact.





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