Am 13.10.2005 um 01:06 schrieb Andreas Raab:
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>> ***I basically agree with you about giving responsibility*** but  
>> we  asked ***endlessly*** that someone take responsibility of Etoy  
>> fixes,
>> Morphic fixes or improvement, Balloon and nothing happened.
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> Look at what you asked for: You asked for all of the trouble and  
> none of the reward. In other words, if I were to sign up for that  
> job in Balloon, I get to do the work, and you (or whoever is at the  
> helm) gets to do the say. No deal, as far as I am concerned. That's  
> not responsibility, that's slave labour.
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No. Why would that be? I am personally no "ego-coder", so I have a  
hard time to understand some reactions of those who are. But even  
with that: The maintainer of eToy of course
gets the fame for that.

The whole "Squeak maintaining/harvesting" thing was from my side  
*never* intended to be my personal ego thing...

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>> " Oh yes, there has been *talk* about "how easy it would  
>> be" (hah!)  but nothing has been done (and I put this finger  
>> squarely at whatever  group feels itself at the helm today: all  
>> these groups failed  *miserably* in this regard)."
>> This is clear that the modularisation effort has not been working  
>> fast.
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> That is the understatement of the century ;-)
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But we should keep in mind that thise changesets that were made to  
make the system modular were ignored.


         Marcus