[squeak-dev] Re: A New Community Development Model

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Thu Jul 2 17:29:26 UTC 2009


Hi Eliot,

Bob & things are discussed and reported on the release-team list, see for  
example

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http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/release/2009-February/000072.html

/Klaus

On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:08:11 +0200, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Hi Keith,
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Keith Hodges  
> <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> The existing community development model works fine enough.
>>
>> 1. Submit changes as change sets to mantis.
>>
>> 2. Bob builds and tests the changes in a basic image, a dev image and a
>> full image
>>
>> While you need your changes, and await the release with your fixes
>> integrated into it, you can load them manually from Mantis.
>>
>> 3. When Bob builds the new release he automatically loads changesets
>> from mantis, and fills in the MC repositories together with commit
>> messages.
>>
>> The result is an image that looks as though it has been managed with MC,
>> but the work is submitted in changesets that we all prefer.
>>
>> This is an open process, and you can see what is due for inclusion or
>> not by querying mantis.
>
>
> I just went to squeak.org and followed community links and I can find no
> reference to Bob.  The things I want to be able to see and find easily  
> are
>
> 1. sample images
> 2. list of packages loaded in the image
> 3. test results (name of class, number of green, yellow and red tests,  
> and
> if possible the assertion that failed or the error message for each  
> yellow
> and red test).
>
> How do I get at this kind of info?  If I can't get at this then Bob is an
> abstraction I don't understand and can't trust.  If it is manifested  
> then it
> needs to be findable easily from squeak.org.
>
> Now if certain members of the board would volunteer to contribute to the
>> process, rather than replacing it without discussion, we would all be a
>> lot better of.
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> Keith
>
>
> best
> Eliot




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