[Squeakfoundation]Self-approving fixes (was Re: ContextCleanupPlus-ajh)

[Doug Way]

Daniel Vainsencher wrote:

>I know why isSymbol is needed, and don't personally mind your self
>approving it. ...
>

I've been thinking that the rigid "you can't approve your own 
submission" rule is probably too strict.  When we started up the 
harvesting group a couple of years ago (with SqC still in charge), 
harvesters were allowed to harvest their own submissions, as long as 
they mostly reviewed other people's.

What we could do is allow approving one's own submissions if they're 
reasonably simple fixes.  But we should have some rule of thumb such as: 
no more than 25% or so of the things you harvest should be your own 
items, because we don't want the harvesters just working on their own stuff.

This would have the added benefit that if harvesters *really* wants to 
get their own submissions in, they'll also review a few items from other 
people, so that they meet the ~25% rule.

So something like this might encourage more harvesting.  It won't 
necesssarily solve all of our current issues, but it's a start...

- Doug


>I don't know why Number>>extend: is needed, and probably
>won't miss it very much for the next 3 years. 
>
>And more to the point, those extensions Anthony wrote that are generally
>useful (asBit, header information printer, around half the OC protocol 
>mentioned), deserve to be presented to Squeakers so they'll get used, 
>instead of becoming more browser-filler.
>
>Daniel
>
>Marcus Denker <marcus at ira.uka.de> wrote:
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>>On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:55:44AM +0200, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>[Additions to various classes...]
>>>Note that my problem with these is not that I argue with the usefulness
>>>of specific items - I simply don't think that it's appropriate to
>>>include them as part of a fix. Why don't you post them one by one to the
>>>mailing list for discussion, where people may argue whether they are
>>>appropriate. You're saying that something should be part of the class
>>>library, defend your opinions on squeak-dev, just like Richard does,
>>>method by method, idea by idea.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I just self-approved a two-liner I posted six weeks ago. So I would
>>estimate that this procedure will take maybe 3 years.
>>
>>   Marcus
>>
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