Lessons learnt from been an integrator

Brad Fuller brad at sonaural.com
Tue Aug 24 14:30:18 UTC 2004


Stef,

I'm indebted to you and the other maintainers/contributors for all your 
hard work and for making 3.7 shippable. I do wish I could help, but I'm 
still just trying to figure Squeak out. Hopefully, at some point, I can 
contribute.

brad

stéphane ducasse wrote:

> Hi all
>
> here are the lessons we learnt while building the 3.7 image. We wanted 
> to have shout, rb, connector
> morph in 3.7 but there were too much patches. We are sorry about that.
>     
>     - We had to decide if we add balloon 3d with pooh broken or not, same
>     for the language editor. We decided to add manually the fixes because
>     we do not have access to the code. But this cannot continue like 
> that.
>
> For the next release here is a list of properties that packages should 
> have:
>     - be maintained
>     - code access by one of the integrators
>     - minimizing the overriding of methods
>         - we should harvest the changes in the kernel
>         - put in places some mechanisms such as services
>     
> Conclusion: I will do 3.7 full but do not count on me in the future.  
> Apparently you are all too busy
> to pay attention to people that spend their time to build stuff for 
> everybody.
>
> Stef
>
>
>
>

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