A couple of simple ergonomic adjustments

Giovanni Corriga giovanni at corriga.net
Fri Jul 13 09:42:15 UTC 2007


Il giorno ven, 13/07/2007 alle 10.40 +0200, Klaus D. Witzel ha scritto:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:54:37 +0200, Ralph Johnson wrote:
> 
> > On 7/12/07, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Who needs to do what to get it there? The code is there, with a small
> >> set of fonts. And it is trivial to add anyone the user wants.
> >>
> >> Should Edgar and the release team just load them? Yes? Edgar, please
> >> doit ASAP!
> >
> > No, Edgar should not.
> 
> :)
> 
> > The process is described at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5919
> >
> > To summarieze, first create a Mantis issue and put your code on it.
> > Then get some people to use it and report that it works and is great.
> > Then put the issue on the list of Mantis issues ready to be included
> > in 3.10.  Then Edgar will try it out.  If it breaks any tests then
> > he'll reject it and make you try again, so you really ought to make
> > sure it doesn't break any tests.  If it doesn't break any tests and if
> > nobody has complained about it then he'll add it to the release.
> >
> > The release team is trying not to be the arbiter of what goes in and
> > what goes out, but rather to set quality standards and to manage the
> > incoming issue stream.  We are not fixing up code or writing tests;
> > that is your job, not ours.
> 
> And this is also the reason that the 3.10 release team definitely is not  
> just two people. The contributors are also members of the release team.  
> They have other roles, but are fully integrated.
> 
> Of course this contradicts the believe that the release team has not  
> enough people.

I disagree here. At the moment there's a bottleneck, since Edgar is the
only one who can add stuff to the release. Having more people on the
release team could speed things up.

	Giovanni




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