goran@krampe.se wrote:
Alan Grimes alangrimes@starpower.net wrote:
Here's what I do when I find a bug in squeak:
[SNIP of blablabla]
You forgot:
- Bitch on squeak-dev instead of: a) helping WebTeam to improve squeak.org b) help fixing the in-image-bug-reporting-mechanism to point to suggest
mantis c) ask how to help in any other way or (gasp) actually just do it
Okay, I can play this game.
I was about ready to concede when I remembered what happens when I do try to contribute.
A fair number of moons ago, I tweaked the Sokoban Morph to within an inch of it's life and tried to publish it on Squeak's version control archive (I can't remember it's name...). While some might take issue with some of my stylistic decisions, the code did work and demonstrated a clear improvment in the quality of gameplay. (Implementing my changes from scratch would take about 20 hours of work..) I submitted this to whom I thought was the maintainer. He liked some of my changes but preferred a different visual style... I'm really not sure what happened to that version... A few weeks later a version of Sokoban appeared in the mainline. It was based on the same suckey code that had inspired me to fix it in the first place!
That isn't to say that none of my changes are appreciated. I made several enhancements to B3DMatrix (If I remember the class name correctly...) that either simplified the call graph, removed redundant methods, or helped reign in excessive GCing... One person noticed one of my changes and is probably enjoying it on his system right now. The rest of you aren't.
Contribute to Squeak? What's the point... Your enhancements and fixes vanish into the aether and never get used.
Squeak is still a great system but all the cool things are happening behind closed doors at the croquetproject... Ofcourse when 1.0 comes out I'll have to back-port in all of the enhancements I've made to 0.3. =\