[squeak-dev] Re: [ANN][Squeak-dev Images] Revival

Damien Cassou damien.cassou at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 08:12:25 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:
>> However, I do not understand why so much people continue to download
>> 3.9 based images.
>
> If you promise to not take it personal: this is a question I often hear in
> the marketing department: why do people click the old stuff when their
> answers in the survey clearly point to the new stuff. Response from the WWW
> guy: these are most likely different (sub-)communities and we have no
> technical tools for relating individual downloaders with individual survey
> participants. Have a tool?


Do you propose that I continue to listen to downloaders? This way, I
will generate event more images and it might confuse the downloaders
who are not subscribed to squeak-dev. I really don't know what to do.
This is why I asked people to answer the polls but only got 10 answers
when downloads are more than 600 only for last month...


> The way you have it is one series for GUI-ers and another for Web-ers; for
> me this is convenient and I don't want more.
>
> In order to address bleeding edge things (sorry for taking Algernon as
> example) I propose to make a parallel line with *experimental* in the name.
> Sounds better than beta.

Ok for "experimental".

-- 
Damien Cassou
Peter von der Ahé: «I'm beginning to see why Gilad wished us good
luck». (http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/override_snafu)



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