This is just a reminder to everyone posting [FIX]es and [ENH]anhcements to the list:
*Please* compress your changesets as .gz files before attaching them to your message.
This ensures that the changeset (or .st file) will be decodable and properly formatted, which makes it easier for the Fixes Review Group to review the submission for inclusion in the base image. Plain text .cs/.st files can have CR/LF issues, tabs converted to spaces, and other problems.
To compress a changeset in gzip (.gz) format, simply use the "compress" menu item in the File List window in Squeak.
For more details on how to post submissions to the list, see the Swiki page:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/398
(Actually, it can sometimes happen that even a gzip compressed changeset won't make it over to SQFIXES, if you use an oddball attachment encoding such as appledouble. This isn't quite as big a deal since they usually still appear in the other (Yahoo, etc.) archives. But it's still good practice to check the SQFIXES site (http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/sqfixes) to make sure your messages and attachments are appearing intact.)
- Doug Way speaking as a Squeak Fixes Review Group guy :)
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