Hi all!

Yesterday we presented the Team model and now we want to follow that up
with proposing two quite important Teams.

As you have seen Ken Causey has already picked up the ball and is
proposing a Team for tackling one of our biggest challenges -
Harvesting. Both in the short and long term. Perfect.

Now... after chatting on IRC with various people etc we want to propose
to form the following two Teams.


Packages
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This is a very central baby to many of us. The Team would focus on the
following issues:

- PackageInfo/Package etc. There is new code from Alexandre Bergel etc,
we need to get something nailed down and into the 3.9 stream.
- TFNR. (Task Force November Revolution, see Swiki) In short - the idea
of partitioning the image and assigning maintainers (with responsibility
and authority) to all parts (sometimes referred to as Stewards trying to
convey that being a maintainer of a base image part is a slightly
different role than just being a "maintainer"). This is not primarily
about ripping out packages.
- SqueakMap. Moving SqueakMap forward, lots of stuff there including
dependencies.
- Universes. Lex's idea about maintaining coherent "distributions" of
packages. (well, he can correct me, but anyway :) ).
- ...and various other related things like Monticello and its use in all
this etc.

The overall theme of this Team is to evolve the technology we already
have and to make working solutions for the current and near term Squeak
releases. And of course to make it all fit together. Without me knowing
if people are interested I can *at least* see the following names in
this Team:

Doug Way, Lex Spoon, Göran Krampe, Avi Bryant, Alexandre Bergel, Ned
Konz

I am not going to venture into talking about who should be Team leader
here - I have a favorite though and its not me ;). But I am definitely
signing up as a very active member.


FutureModules
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This is a Team focusing on more "future" technologies in this area.
Examples that have come up are:

- Spoon.
- Islands.
- E and similar idea.
- Environments.
- Namespaces (various models and solutions thereof)
- ClassBoxes and other stuff from Berne in this regard.

Well, I am surely missing something but you get the picture. Dan Ingalls
has expressed a solid interest in this Team and Craig Latta too. And
some of us from the Packages team might be found here too - if not only
just to be able to reflect on it.


So... the list seems quiet compared to earlier - have we scared everyone
away? :)
Feedback please!!!

regards, Göran