Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> wrote:
> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:54:39 +0200
> From: Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com>
> Subject: [ANN] Unstable Squeak
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> reply-to: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> 
> On Sep 25, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Avi Bryant wrote:
> 
> > On Sep 25, 2004, at 11:03 AM, stZphane ducasse wrote:
> 
> >> There were some discussions and attempts to see how we could use MC 
> >> instead of CS for the
> >> update stream. But now the result are not clear to me. It would be 
> >> nice if the interested parties
> >> could define a simple agenda and prepare some experiments so that we 
> >> could have a bit more
> >> visibility for the future. Daniel, Avi? Others?
> >
> > I've been working on a simple experiment along these lines.  More 
> > details when it's ready.
> 
> Ok, here goes.  From the article I just posted to Squeak People :
> 
> "I'd like to announce Unstable Squeak: an experimental fast-moving, 
> community-based developer-oriented distribution of Squeak. Unstable 
> Squeak leverages Squeak Source, Squeak People, and Monticello to try to 
> present an alternative model for incoporating fixes and enhancements 
> from the community with a minimum of process.
> 
>   Unstable Squeak is an experiment in two parts. As a social experiment, 
> it's an attempt to use trust networks and community dynamics, rather 
> than a lengthy review process, to ensure the quality of contributions. 
> The Unstable Squeak repository is open for anyone to commit changes to, 
> and any of a large group of developers (those with Journeyer status or 
> above on Squeak People) may "bless" these changes to be immediately 
> included in the Unstable Squeak distribution. As a technical 
> experiment, it's an attempt to build the infrastructure required to 
> support this more ad-hoc approach to development, using the Monticello 
> versioning system as a base. Hopefully, the technology built for 
> Unstable Squeak will eventually be refined to the point where it can be 
> adopted by mainstream Squeak as well."
> 
> Read the rest of the article here, and let me know your thoughts (or 
> better yet, just participate in the experiment):
> http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/39.html
´
Very cool. My head hurts, I have to change the way I think about 
working with Squeak. But still, I love it :-)
Karl