Adding tests package to the image [GO VOTE!]

Jason Rogers jacaetevha at fast-mail.org
Tue Feb 3 15:53:08 UTC 2004


On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:05:15 -0600, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:

> Replying to posts, and by extension voting, is restricted to those who
> have been certified up to at least the level of Apprentice.  This means
> that you don't get to vote until others recognize that you have made
> some level of contribution to Squeak.  If you have contributed in some
> way to Squeak please be sure to note on your
> http://people.squeakfoundation.org/ page what you have done or link to a
> web page where it is noted.  This sort of information is necessary for
> others to decide at what level to certify you.

So things that affect the entire community are allowed to be voted on by
that subset of the community that has a measurable rate of return to the
community, but not by that subset who has no measureable return.  Doesn't
sound much like a community process to me.

Personally, I haven't been able to contribute to Squeak due to time, lack
of experience in Smalltalk, and maybe some other reasons.  Does that mean
I value Squeak any less than say, Dan Ingalls or Alan Kay?  Does that mean
that I have no valid input on the processes of the community?  Quite the
opposite... I have a wealth of understanding and experience in objects,
unit testing, etc. but how does that get expressed except through a mail
list that is very much overloaded -- a mail list that, I would tend to
believe, most folks cannot read in totality.

Sounds fishy, but if that is the process, I resign to it.

-- 
Jason Rogers

"So great is the ignorance, so very little the knowledge, of even the best 
of men!" - John Wesley, "Christian Perfection"



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