Hi egdar

to make sure that I understand that correctly: 3.10 harvested a couple  
of fixes (compared with the 685 mantis
items marcus closed) and you are telling that 3.11 will in addition  
merge everything and reconcile all the forks.
This sounds optimistic and not really aligned with the results of  
3.10. Don't you think?

Now a couple of weeks ago someone sent me this mail
"Just out of curiosity...
I wanted to write a mail, along the lines of...
I looked into the bugs fixed in 3.10... I'm a bit confused, though,  
because there does not seem to be much progress in 3.10 with respect  
to bug fixing. Is Mantis up to date? Is Mantis showing what I think it  
should (I used the date + status filters)?

Below is a comparison of the number of reports for each possible state  
in 3.9 (March 1, 2005 - Sept 30, 2006) and 3.10 (Oct 1, 2006 - today):
3.9		3.10 	status
----------------------------
276		254		new
19 		8		feedback
4		1		acknowledged
2		3		confirmed
70		111 	assigned
47 		10 		resolved
685		25 		closed

...but I did not send it (yet)"

And you know the saddest part is that is not that 3.10 harvested so  
few fixes because this can happen. The saddest part is
that this person did not send his email because it means that people  
get bored or at the end that we do not succeed to bring their  
enthousiasm into the community. With this kind of attitude will may  
lose on the long term. I like squeak because people  are sharing and  
are enthousiast about it.
Of course managing the image with MC does not really work for  
streaming changes. I really hope that MC2 will solve that. Colin told  
me that it will: MC2 will really load only the difference and will not  
have to rescan everything. Now MC2 is not ready and may be not ready.

So I will do 3.9.1 because some people asked me and after I will  
really take the time to think about where I put
my energy. May do a call for building another fork of something  
different from Squeak as it is now or simply do not care.
May be other dynamic languages are more fun at the end.

Stef