I would deem an extra pop-up too intrusive. Probably many people use a stable release image deliberately and only want to receive backported patches for that. But maybe we could add a short note into the Transcript or the "updated completed" dialog?


Best,

Christoph

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Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. September 2022 19:10:14
An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Betreff: [squeak-dev] Make the trunk stream more discoverable? (was: Docs on Contributing to Squeak)

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 03:23:07PM +0000, Thiede, Christoph wrote:
> That's weird, I'm here at 22221. 22111 is the latest image version for
> Squeak 6.0. Do you maybe need to change your image to follow the Trunk
> (Squeak 6.1Alpha) again?
>

Now that you mention it, this is easy to overlook and I wonder how
many new users even know that the trunk stream is available to them?

Perhaps we could have something like this in a menu, perhaps right
below the "Update Squeak" option in the menu bar:


   (MCMcmUpdater defaultUpdateURL copyAfterLast: $/ ) in: [ :repo | repo = 'trunk' ifFalse: [
      (self confirm: 'Change to master trunk development stream (currently updating from ', repo, ')?')
         ifTrue: [MCMcmUpdater defaultUpdateURL: 'https://source.squeak.org/trunk']]]


Dave


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