Mark,<br><br>I think <span class="sg">Philippe </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>means both e-mail for persistent store and jabber for the so inclined available per their preference.<br><br>I look forward to the day when one subscribes to the development projects one is interested in.
<br><br>Say, everyone's (public code) SUnit tests' results are published in RSS. <br>When the developer gets green on the important SUnit tests, you get the notice in your aggregator (and a copy of code if its not too big, otherwise get a link to it).
<br><br>Then, if you want to, you import the code to a safe copy of what you are working on and run your SUnit tests on the integrated code and programmatically post the errors in your own RSS feed. If the developer really cares, they could subscribe to your results feed. The aggregator helps mitigate interruptions and disruptions to programmer thought process.
<br><br>This sort of closes the loop nicely and more tightly and programmatically than public broadcasts alone. Seems a natural for the collaborative nature of Croquet. Big code compatibility breakage lights-up the net like a Christmas tree.
<br><br>Beyond "incremental compiling" ... it's "incremental code integration", more fine grained than any project or .cs file making the rounds. It's also loosely coupled like the net itself. Unsubscribe anytime. This also lets the developer know how popular their projects are. It also makes it easier to share popular project development code subscription "sets" between "friends of friends" automating it rather than just passing along a link to a site homepage or a copy of outdated code..
<br><br>This might even be a nice hosted service if open source folks care to post minute slips of changed code that passes their Unit tests to the service.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Darius<br><br>