Hi Brent!

"Brent Pinkney" <brent.pinkney at aircom.co.za> wrote:
> > We currently have 4 running Teams:
> 
> > 	- File area, with Bruce O'Neel as team leader.
> > 	- Box1 administration, Cees de Groot as team leader. (not much work
> > here for the leader)
> > 	- New web site, with Stephane Ducasse as team leader.
> > 	- MinimalMorphic, with Cees de Groot as team leader.
> 
> Should we not have a standing team responsible for maintaining the base  
> image. By that I mean a team with the experience and discretion to quickly  
> integrate refactoring and changes that would be part of the base image:
> 
> e.g.
> 	1. Dan Ingalls recent one method change to speed up Date>>dayOfYear
> 	2. Updating the installed packages in the 3.8g to the latest on SqueakMap
> 	3. Updating the list of known MIME types to that in the Comanche package
> 	4. Discretion to finally add convenience methods like:  
> Collection>>detect:ifFound:ifNone:
> 		or AbstractString>>string
> 
> I always have a dozen or so small changes I file into a new image.
> 
> Some of then KCP team may be usefule here and I volunteer myself for any  
> role in such a team.

I am taking notes. We/I have a list of candidate Teams in my head that
of course are much more important than some of the Teams you see in that
list above. That little list is just the result of our last week
bootstrapping. :)

But we wanted to see how this model is received first. The Team you are
describing sounds like a Harvesting Team, more or less? As you probably
are aware (I assume that is why you are posting :)) harvesting is more
or less stalled and getting a process started again for working on 3.9
is of course a top priority.

So one step at a time - is the model to your liking? It is good enough
to run with and take any issues with as we go along? Are the rules
minimal and simple enough? Is the intent of the model clear? Do you
think it will make things better?

> Brent

regards, Göran