Cees De Groot wrote:

>On 10/13/05, Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net> wrote:
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>>personally I'm in favor of keeping the update stream and the smooth
>>transitions it allows.
>>
>k. How many hours per week are you pledging?
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I'll help. But, I don't know what I'm doing ;-)

>Because I hear a lot of 'should this', 'should that', but the actual
>work is done by others... Personally, I think it would be great if we
>could make this transition, and therefore their work, easier. If that
>turns out to be problematic for some unknown group (both
>quantitatively and qualitatively), we can always fix it. I like the
>suggestion of someone else maintaining some update stream in parallel
>and loosely coupled with the core bleeding edge development.
>
>But I don't think that 'marketing', or catering for an unknown group,
>should stand in the way of a solid development foundation. 
>
Maybe I'm way off base here... but... This seems to be one of those 
statements similar to "when did you last beat your wife?"
No one suggested (at least I didn't see any statement to this effect) 
that a "solid development foundation" would be hindered with 
evangelizing the wonders of Squeak. Furthermore, if the community of 
contributors/builders continue to look inward to only themselves, Squeak 
will remain niche. From some posts here, I realize that is a goal of 
some. I, for one, would like the world to see the greatness of Squeak 
(if only for my own selfish reasons.)

>As long as
>we don't get that working, no group will benefit from the time these
>volunteers are spending on it.
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>

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