>>> If you don't like process X, the way to persuade the community not  
>>> to follow Andreas is to provide an alternative. Keith, it sounds  
>>> to me like you've got clear ideas about what a better alternative  
>>> would be, and have the tools realize that vision. To that end, I  
>>> suggest the following steps:
>>
>> My time, and availability to do any of that ended when Andreas did  
>> what he did.
>
> A shame. I had hoped that your decision to reengage the community  
> this way was a sign that you were ready to pursue your vision  
> despite the setback you've suffered. If that's not your purpose...  
> um, why all the fuss?
>
> Colin


Hi Colin,

My decision to re-engage, was out of the realisation that, I don't  
have anywhere to go at all with my code base much beyond a year hence,  
because when I tried pharo 1.0 I didn't like it at all. I even thought  
I might humble myself and try Metacello, to see if it really was  
offering more than S/P, and I don't think it fundamentally is.

In discussions in irc, some were asking about getting MC up and  
running in Cuis.
So then I tried Cuis and I did like it as far as it goes, which isn't  
yet far enough to run MC let alone seaside or pier.

So, as it turns out this is where the Cuis discussions are, and I  
signed back up. If Cuis had a separate mailing list, I would not have  
shown my face here again.

I think Cuis has potential, since all the things that interest me  
(apart from adopting a Logging API to replace Transcript show: , and  
replacing FileDirectory) are external to the kernel of Cuis. Juan has  
stated he doesnt care about anything other than having a good kernel.  
So that is promising, no board to mess things up with politics.

In Cuis-land a lot of the contributions that are being made to "trunk"  
would be in external packages anyway, including changes to morphic.  
This had been what we were aiming to achieve with putting  
AtomicLoading as top priority, to be able to make larger subsystems  
like Morphic externally manageable and loadable, so as to enable  
changes by revolution rather than evolution. I do think cuis + atomic  
loading would be cool to have.

On my return, I also discovered that clearly my absence has not been  
of any concern. Since the board had not done anything about the "terms  
of reference" request I made 5 months ago, this is why I got pissed  
off on the day after the board meeting and had a proper rant.  
Apparently the board doesn't care how they treat people, and the board  
now represents the squeak community, until that changes, I see no  
reason to participate with squeak, its no fun.

Overall, since I have recently learned how rape and abuse trauma may  
be cured, I have developed a 5 year therapy programme for resolving  
Multiple Personality Disorder, which I am being asked to teach, and  
also a cure for tourettes and dispraxia is possibly close behind, my  
time really would be better spent on more important things; video  
documenting case studies, performing research and actually helping  
people. Unfortunately this doesn't pay the bills (it is unethical to  
charge), if anyone would like to sponsor me to help people instead, I  
would happily drop coding and leave you all alone for good.

regards

Keith

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