I was attempting to stimulate discussion of Stef's concern from a social angle,
not so much a technical one.

To repeat the question:  Is there a solution that can direct the energy we have
in abundance (people creating things and "improving" existing things) toward
the tasks that currently consume a the energy of a select few (harvesting these
creations and improvements) in a way that gives us everything we have now
(community discussion, review, testing, etc.).

My lame, hypothetical implementation dream that followed was meant only to
provide an illustrative context for this different social approach than what we
have now; i.e., distributed harvestation vs. centralized and what are the
implications?

Stef asked for ideas to make a "self-supporting" process.  Please forgive for a
moment that it will be hard to get there.  I am still just trying to clarify
where "there" is and hoping to learn something from you guys in the process..

Regards,
  Chris


> Message: 15
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:55:55 +0200
> From: Michael Rueger <michael at impara.de>
> Subject: Re: Need to do something
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> Chris Muller wrote:
> 
> > Stop pushing them through Mantis or any other external tool.  Instead, we
> write
> > a program that integrates into Squeak that allows anyone to submit directly
> > from the alpha image.  These submissions appear on everyones list.  Later
> the
> 
> NIH all over again. Things never seem to be hard to implement, but we 
> are having this discussion because people are running out of energy 
> harvesting, let alone writing yet another tool for crying out loud...
>
> We just moved to Mantis because the other approach didn't work...