[squeak-dev] Re: [Election 2008] More questions answered

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Mar 5 09:27:01 UTC 2008


Andrew P. Black wrote:
> 6. Do you have any specific views on how the Squeak board and the Squeak 
> community should work together with the Squeak satellite communities 
> (Croquet, Seaside, Sophie, Squeakland, Scratch etc), also referred to as 
> "stakeholder communities"?
> 
> I see that our role is having a stable release that keeps getting better 
> all the time.  I don't mean more features: I mean more stability, 
> more reliability, fewer bugs, and better programming tools.  And 
> mechanisms that make it easy for the stakeholders to migrate to the 
> next, better, Squeak, rather that making things so difficult for them 
> that they say: "my project is based on Squeak 3.8, and it ain't gonna 
> move", because each time that I move, it costs me bigtime.

For obvious reasons that resonates with me. Can you identify any 
concrete steps that would help achieve this goal? Put differently: How 
would *you* go about it concretely?

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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