A very important resource for tracking some of the goings on at Squeak
Central is to simply keep an updated alpha version image at hand and
actually read the update headers each time you get a batch - the alpha
update stream normally lags the Squeak Central internal stream by no
more than a couple of weeks - often much less. Since official releases
are normally made about every 3 to 4 months you usually get a reasonable
level of warning for most larger scale changes.

And if knowing how the wind might blow a few months down the line is
vital to what you're doing, just send Dan or Scott or John or Andreas an
email (depending on what part of Squeak you are most concerned with),
present what you're wanting to do, and *ask*.

-- Dwight

Daniel Allan Joyce wrote:
> 
>         I love SmallTalk.
> 
>         I love Squeak.
> 
>         But there is no mailing on the list dealing with the progress of Squeak
> Central projects, which seems to be hush-hush... :/
> 
>         Makes it difficult for me to know if I'm going into an area that
> someone else is working on, or wondering if something I want to do will
> be broke by a unknown, not discussed Squeak Central project.
> 
>         I want to give Morphic some robust REAL widgets, bulletproof and
> reliable. I found myself tearing out a lot of cruft.
> 
>         But...
>         Is someone of the SC group working on this?
> 
>         What is the current EXACT status of Balloon 2D, and would this affect
> my implementation of Squeak Widgets?
> 
>         Rumbles have appeared that "Morphic may not be the way to go, we're
> working on something better". Yes? And?
> 
>         At least with linux, developers of add-ons can keep track of what the
> core team of developers is doing, and plan their coding accordingly,
> writing patches and updating their drivers as needed as the central code
> undergoes changes.
> 
>         Here? No clue, except for some musty OLD pages on the Squeak wiki.
> Nothing, I have no clue if what I do will be broken in a year by a
> suprise SC code release. I don't mind it being broken, but the work
> could be done over time if I was kept abreast of SC design plans....
> 
>         Daniel Joyce