[Special Report] 3.6 is out, now what? :-)

ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Oct 8 14:18:07 UTC 2003


Hi goran

I like your list. It is a good goal.
I would add the event notification of Roel because we can build a lot 
of nice tools
with that.

I would add: we NEED harvesters for special areas such as etoy, morph, 
concurrency and network.

Stef

On Mercredi, oct 8, 2003, at 17:05 Europe/Zurich, 
goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> Personally I think that during the 3.7 iteration we should at least 
> consider doing these things:
>
> 1. We (guides) have started trying to formulate a vision that we stand 
> by. This is still very much in its infancy, but I think one goal for 
> 3.7 is to get that out.
>
> 2. I think we should at least try to rotate one Guide. Rotation was a 
> key idea from the beginning and I think it is healthy for the 
> community.
>
> 3. Make a targeted effort at "harvesting" many of the enhancement 
> packages currently living on SM. Many of those actually belong in the 
> base image packages.
>
> 4. Get the new Compiler in. The word is out that SmaCC is now 
> available under MIT so the license question is out of the way. Let's 
> get this stuff in! It would be a real shame if all that work Anthony 
> did got wasted...
>
> 5. Get Babel in and squeeze out a few translations. Already much on 
> the way.
>
> 6. Split out at least ... 3 (?) more packages from Basic.
>
> 7. Get the TimeStamp/DateAndTime-whatever-package in. I am getting 
> bored at including that in SM...
>
> 8. Whatever stuff that comes out of KCP and MCP of course. :)
>
> 9. General harvesting, and perhaps have a "BFAV crash course" during 
> the iteration to pick up more users and thus speed through more 
> eyeballs.
>
> 10. Come up with *anything* regarding bug tracking. Both for the image 
> and for packages. SM2 can help a bit.
>
> 11. Start thinking about Stewarding areas of the image using 
> PackageInfo definitions (without necessarily splitting it out). This 
> way we get someone "in charge" and bug tracking, decision making etc 
> gets much more defined.
>
> 12. And of course... get SM2 up and running. :-)
>
>
> Now, this is by far a full list of candidate tasks. There are tons 
> more that I both didn't think of rightnow or even purposefully left 
> out so that other people get a chance to pipe up.
>
> over and out for now, Göran
>
> PS. If people simply throw out candidate tasks I will gather them up 
> to a grand list which we then can prioritize.
>



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