[squeak-dev] Re: Throwing gasoline on the fire... (re: The future of Squeak & Pharo)

Paolo Bonzini bonzini at gnu.org
Mon Jun 29 22:13:18 UTC 2009


> Ok, so sure, this may be elitist thinking and it may be a *really bad*
> idea - but since we are throwing ideas on the wall to see what sticks
> here goes:
>
> Perhaps there should be a list for only people with "commit bit"? When
> decisions are to be made then that list is used so that developers can
> ask the others for opinions etc and only active committers have ability
> to post. The list should be public though.
>
> Crazy? Perhaps. But an idea. Because my perception is that the subset of
> active committers very often tend to AGREE on the course of action.

It's not so crazy -- Squeak can be a bit penalized in that there is no 
such thing as a "patch mailing list".  From my experience, on a patch ML 
fast-talkers usually run out of arguments fast...

Paolo



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