<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:12 PM, tim Rowledge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">No ceremony at all worries me. Call me Captain Slow (cf James May) but I like procedures. They're recipes for maintaining sanity over time.</span></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><div>Well, it's not quite "no ceremony," we're aiming for "no more ceremony than necessary." Here's the description of the way it's supposed to work now:</div><div><br></div><div>
<a href="http://squeakboard.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/a-new-community-development-model/">http://squeakboard.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/a-new-community-development-model/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The development of Squeak 3.11 basically ground to halt because of excessive procedure, and this new model was an attempt to resuscitate it. It worked! </div>
<div><br></div><div>It's possible that we have swung too far in the other direction, but I haven't seen anything that makes me think so. Are there specific problems you want to solve, or is it more of a general unease at the loosey-goosey-free-for-all?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Colin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>