>> Now that you mention it, this is easy to overlook and I wonder how
many new users even know that the trunk stream is available to them?

 

> I agree with Dave that switching update streams is too hidden and would be very convenient to change with "one click". 

 

+1, very much agree with Dave… I had no idea about a trunk. I would have appreciated such convenience/encouragement to switch to the trunk when started :)

 

Jaromir

 

From: Chris Muller
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 23:35
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Make the trunk stream more discoverable? (was: Docs on Contributing to Squeak)

 

I agree with Dave that switching update streams is too hidden and would be very convenient to change with "one click".  Whatever UI approach is chosen to expose it better, please ensure the action ends up also ensuring whichever one is switched to (trunk) is the top HTTP repository in each MCWorkingCopy, so that the revisions will be ready to go as well.

 

 - Chris

 

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 2:48 PM tim Rowledge <tim@rowledge.org> wrote:

Dave is suggesting another option in the menu, not a pop-up thing.

 

I'd also consider making it part of the dialogue that already pops up at the end of an update - 

 

In the default downloaded state it shows the Url as 'http://source.squeak.org/squeak60'. If we added a button 'update from trunk from now on' this would be reasonably obvious and very easy to use.

On 2022-09-28, at 12:04 PM, Thiede, Christoph <Christoph.Thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

I would deem an extra pop-up too intrusive. Probably many people use a stable release image deliberately and only want to receive backported patches for that. But maybe we could add a short note into the Transcript or the "updated completed" dialog?

 

tim
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