<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 24 Jan 2010, at 15:28, keith wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>If you are a *developer* of Squeak itself, follow trunk, propose<br>changes to Inbox, and perhaps become a committer to trunk yourself<br>after enough good patches.<br><br>THIS IS THE SAME MODEL AS EVERY OTHER SUCCESSFUL OPEN SOURCE PROJECT.</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Do you recall that in the last 10 years there was discovered such a thing as Extreme Programming. This is a different model to what you are using.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Keith continues to make it into something it isn't. We're doing<br>*what works*.</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>May I point out again that it doesn't work for me. My patches to trunk would be fixes for Monticello. These fixes would break trunk, therefore it doesn't work as you suppose.</div><div><br></div><div>Keith</div></div><br></blockquote></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">Also squeak and linux are different, one is source based the other isn't.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">Squeak has a long history, and the problem is not, and never has been, bunging out another release, Edgar managed it all on his lonesome!</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">The new problem on the block is reducing the propensity, the need, and the drive, for forking within the community.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">how exactly does trunk solve that. If you can answer that convincingly I will then be convinced that trunk is part of the solution and not part of the problem.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">regards</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">Keith</div></body></html>