When I get a chance to "harvest", it's invariably outside of the times of the parties, but I can see the usefulness of the parties to attract new people to the harvesting process. Besides, Ken can attest to the times I've hit the parties because I needed to sanity check the problems that I have had in the past with testing the posts. :^)
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: stéphane ducasse ducasse@iam.unibe.ch
Hi all,
I discussed with ken about the fact that the harvesting party emails are counter-productive and that I would like to see them rename as SqueakOnline, SqueakChat.
The main problem is that right now the email gives the impression that something is happening but NOTHING happen in the harvesting. (alex started to harvest a bit and me too) but beside that this is not during the parties and now nothing happen.
So I would prefer that you realize that if you think that if something is happening this is totally wrong.
I could not convince ken and he asked me to ask you to react. So please let him know that this is not productive to let people think that some progress are made to include fixes and enh when nothing happen.
I think that the voices of the previous harvesters are important: so marcus, doug, mike, yoshiki, bert let us know.
Note that I have nothing against the chat over irc because this is a cool idea. But right now, it gives the wrong message
Stef
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