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Hi Ned!<br>
<br>
Just a few comments:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid200408131442.07996.ned@squeakland.org" type="cite">
<p class="t2">To talk about what is in a distribution and what
distributions share in common, we must be able to name the packages.
This is a task that has been started several times (most recently with
TFNR) but has not been finished. This is <i>essential</i> for my
proposal to work, because as soon as we share packages (which we are)
we must be able to both take responsibility for them and to talk about
changes to them.</p>
</blockquote>
I also think that this is a root problem and many other problems just
exist because of that.<br>
<blockquote cite="mid200408131442.07996.ned@squeakland.org" type="cite">
<p class="t2">Similarly, if there were a single timeline that could
show in one place threads on squeak-dev, new changes to Minnow, new
blog postings on SqP, new forum posts on Squeakland, etc., it would be
easier to follow the pulse of the community by reading (or subscribing
to) a single resource.</p>
</blockquote>
When SqP came along I thought "Oh please, not another web site to check
for squeak news". Back then (for local readers: a long time ago) I
hacked something to give me at least an overview [1] about what is
happening on various mailing lists and on the SqueakSwiki. This is
still very very basic. Recently I uploaded Sqim to SqueakSource that
makes this overview available from inside Squeak and offers the
possibility to broadcast short news lines. This is also very
rudimentary and the Morphic part needs some serious work. Unfortunately
I can't invest any time into that right now, but none the less I think
this could work as a starting point in the future.<br>
<br>
Alex<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://laza.homeip.net/cgi-bin/sqim.pl">http://laza.homeip.net/cgi-bin/sqim.pl</a><br>
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