CampSmalltalk: Unstable stream opened for 3.8a

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Sep 15 13:44:22 UTC 2004


>> Thanks for the update on the update stream ;)
>>
>> We are currently working with alex on a new namespace class and we 
>> should think how the
>> KCP pending items should be treated.
>
> There is lots of stuff to to wrt. harvesting.
>
> Are there many KCP changesets not added? On BFAV, there is only 
> KCP-0122FixCanUnderstand.
>
> It would be nice to have
>
> 1) fix the problems in the unstable m17n updates, promote them to 
> stable
> 2) there are 90 approved changesets. Get them in
> 3) Diego posted lots of good stuff. We need to get that in or he will 
> stop. (I would).
> 4) Go over the non-approved stuff.
>
> The idea of 3.8 is to have a release *fast*. So we should not add 
> stuff that needs a long
> time to settle down.
>
> So... I think the most important thing to do is to realy set up the 
> scheme of how things should
> work for 3.8. After that, adding e.g. KCP stuff will be much easier.

Exactly my point is that I do not want to wait that all the pending 
stuffs are done to start having
a new kernel in which we can have fun. So I would like to have the same 
process that we got before
with some KCP streams.

>
> So... first step:
>
>  -> Make it possible for those with the power of [approved] to commit 
> to the unstable stream directly.
>       (Here I should mention that adding people to that list is easy. 
> Just ask)

Ok let me when I can help.

Stef




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