> In other words, imho your approach of "waiting for a meaningful unit of improvement" does not scale optimally. :)

Exactly. That's why we need a different strategy and improve the "back end" that manages that history. I can clean out my local "package-cache" if I need more space on my disk. But I cannot improve the "browse revisions" feature from where I sit. :-)

Best,
Marcel
Am 19.12.2019 09:37:34 schrieb Thiede, Christoph <christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:
I actually have similar problems. I understand that we want to keep the history short, but, for example, I found some typos in a package some months ago but don't have any real contributions for this package. So, apparently, the world will never be released from these typos ...
In other words, imho your approach of "waiting for a meaningful unit of improvement" does not scale optimally. :)

Best,
Christoph
Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2019 23:52:52
An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] The Inbox: PreferenceBrowser-ck.85.mcz
 
Hi Christian,

My request to not include it in trunk as-is was directed at the trunk committers, you have no need to apologize.  I'm glad you got to go through the lifecycle of contributing to Squeak including making a version and submitting it to our shared inbox repository.

Good question though, the best way to deal with micro improvements is to... (wait for it...)..  not.  Seriously, stopping to package up a piece of micro dust just breaks your momentum.  Just keep working toward your broader goal, don't worry about changes accumulating, saving your image at the end of the day with dirty packages is the normal case.  When your meaingful-unit-of-improvement is ready to present to the world, craft your Version entries with the same care for clarity and compactness as you did the code, as if your name will forever be associated with this piece of work, since, it will.

Welcome to Squeak.  I look forward to your future contributions which will be worth reading about.

Best,
  Chris

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 3:58 PM Christian Kellermann <ckeen at pestilenz.org [mailto:ckeen at pestilenz.org]> wrote:

* Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com [mailto:asqueaker at gmail.com]> [191218 22:45]:
> Please don't put this dust into the trunk ancestry.  Does anyone have
> anything else for the PreferencesBrowser they could include this with..?

I am sorry, how should I deal with these mini things in the future?

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