Hello,

what's the current procedures/policies for accepting changes into
Squeak?

Back in January of 2001 I submitted an enhancement of the
ConnectionQueue class (http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/sqfixes/1285.html). I
never received any response.

I'm bringing this up because looking at the list of fixes at:

http://www.mindspring.com/~dway/smalltalk/sqfixes/old/23Aug01/sqfixes4.html

I get the impression that most fixes go unnoticed/uncommented and
presumably uncommitted to the official Squeak.

I suppose my enhancement may have contained a bug / been considered
badly written; but I would at least have expected to receive some sort
of response. Especially since the enhancement addressed the need for
blocking accepts - a very basic feature in most development
environments. Yet the Squeak Socket/ConnectionQueue stuff only supports
a polling approach. In other words, I would have expected the
functionality to be desired.

My question is - did my enhancement slip through the cracks, or are the
maintainers simply too busy to handle all the changes that come in? Is
this a general problem?

If the latter - perhaps a reorganization is needed. There is much talk
about Squeak being Open Source and how easy it is to contribute to the
project; but if changes go ignored, the submitter is less likely to
continue submitting enhancements.

I get the distinct impression that this is a general problem. Surfing
the Wiki one can find various nice things (such as better-looking
themes, a new and improved system browser, etc) - but they are not in
the official Squeak release even though they are seemingly things many
people would want - and particularly things that would help Squeak
achieve success among newcomers.

Comments? Flames? :)

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