[Squeakfoundation]Order of business ...

Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:52:49 +0300

Rework the SqF Swiki - sure, go ahead. We need it in a good initial
state, and we'll all add content as needed.

Roles -
I obviously hope to guide the detanglement process (2), which to me is
almost synonymous to 5. There's plenty of space here for two, and Ned
also has relevant experience packaging a significant application
(connectors) in a non-trivial manner. 

I heard Craig was the other volunteer, so I'm pretty sure he has some
clear idea on what he wants to do, which I'd be glad to hear...

If he can sketch a migration path that gives us high quality sockets
that don't bring up GUI, while not breaking everything currently in the
image, I'd be glad to hear that, too.

Daniel

goran.hultgren@bluefish.se wrote:
> Ok, guys, everything sounds nice.
> 
> I hope Scott is interested and willing to stay as the main "gate keeper"
> for a while - but it is of course important to document the process so
> that we can both let someone else fill in if needed and also remake the
> whole harvesting process given the outlined vision of an interactive
> tool.
> 
> But let me skip the details for just one more post. I think it would be
> good to do these two steps FIRST:
> 
> 1. Rework the Squeakfoundation Swiki. Rip oup the old cruft, put in some
> fresh info - the Mission statement etc. I can start doing this if we
> agree on it.
> 2. Put up a page there with the current Guides and their *roles*. I can
> do that too - but you need to help me formulate them, see below.
> 
> This last part became quite obvious when I was writing about the near
> future in the mission statement. Now I will throw out some roles and see
> what you say:
> 
> 1. Guide of VMs and image format: Tim Rowledge. Coordinate the VMs, the
> BC stuff, J5 etc. Tim has the deep knowledge to do this and he is one of
> he four horseme... ehrm, I mean VM port maintainers.
> 
> 2. Guide of image detanglement (dependency analysis and making the base
> package friendly): Daniel Vainsencher. Daniel has tools brewing
> (Spaghetti tracer), a bunch of good ideas how to make the image more
> dynamic and package friendly etc. I think you would fit perfectly in
> that role leading the forces forward and handing out responsibility
> areas. Much like you just started to do in previous postings here.
> 
> 3. Guide of SM: Me. I will simply focus on moving SM forward, first step
> will be to present the roadmap ahead. Then if people are interested to
> help out I will coordinate that.
> 
> 4. Guide of the update stream: I think Doug is the perfect fit. Having
> been a harvester Doug knows the ropes and could start by documenting the
> process we have together with Scott and then perhaps start sketching on
> a new system for this as we have envisioned. I would like to participate
> in the design because SM has quite a lot to do with that. Best would be
> if Scott wants to continue doing the updates of course but with
> assistance of Doug and perhaps we could also start a more aggressive
> collection into our alpha version - it is after all alpha, right? There
> are literally TONS of fixes out there. And the focus should be on fixes,
> not extra stuff.
> 
> 5. Guide of (top down) application breakout: Ned Konz. Ned has deep
> Morphic knowledge which seems to come handy when ripping out a few apps
> from the image! Also given SAR and good knowledge of SM Ned could see to
> that we hand out apps to people willing to take them on and help them
> break them out and start maintaining them.
> 
> 6. Guide of (bottom up) kernel image buildup: Craig Latta. Craig has low
> level knowledge and an interest in small platforms. Perhaps this is a
> perfect fit with Dan Ingalls/Andreas Raab to help us get that small
> kernel image and also start layering packages on top of it.
> 
> 
> Note that I just whipped these up from thin air - pick, choose, reject
> and select according to your own!
> 
> regards, Göran
> 
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