On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:10 -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> goran at krampe.se wrote:
> > 1. Contact me or Ken if you want to Steward one of the current PIs in
> > 3.9a.
> 
> Consider yourself contacted ;-) I'll sign up for:
> 
> * Graphics
> * Balloon
> * Compression
> * FFI
> 

Rock!  I don't think anyone would have any problem with you managing
these areas, so consider it official.

I personally vote for hosting these on
http://source.squeakfoundation.org/ because I anticipate that in time we
will add features to this site to allow easily submitting
releases/versions into the Harvesters inbox, or directly to the update
stream, or whatever is appropriate.  Also I just think it would be nice
if we had one site where anyone could expect to find the 'official'
teams/code for any given part of the image.  But this is really just my
opinion and in the end it's the decision of each Team leader and team as
to how how they host their stuff.

So would you like some mailing lists?  I think for the greatest
flexibility each of these should be a seperate team with a seperate
mailing list.  That you are the Team Leader in each case would just be
incidental and would allow, at some point down the road, for you to hand
any of them off to someone else as appropriate.  So shall we call these
by the above names (Graphics, Balloon, Compression, FFI) and having
mailing lists with matching names?

I'll go ahead and make myself the initial coordinator for each of these
teams.  If another board member is interested then I would be quite
happy to hand off.

Ken

> I don't think there is any doubt as to my qualifications in these areas 
> (after all I wrote probably half of the code in these packages ;-) but 
> if you have any doubts, please ask. The reason why I am choosing these 
> packages and not others is simply that they are also critical to the 
> work in Tweak and Croquet and therefore deserve special attention on my 
> part.
> 
> In the next step, I'll figure out where to put the master repositories 
> for the above packages (e.g., SqF or Impara, where the latter has better 
> maintenance as far as I am concerned) and look for further people who 
> have an interest in the above areas. If you are interested in any of 
> these areas, please let me know so we can get started. I am *definitely* 
> looking for more people since my time is limited and I would like to 
> have some active co-maintainers.
> 
> Let me also briefly outline my initial plans for the above packages. In 
> the FFI and Compression package, stability and consistency are the most 
> important goals right now. I have no plans to do any major changes, just 
> making sure things work as well (or better) as they are right now. I 
> will request that the FFI be removed from the "basic" image, however. It 
> has no more right to be in a basic image than VMMaker ;-)
> 
> Balloon will see some work. Initially, it will be split into (roughly) 
> three packages: The actual "Balloon" package will consist exclusively of 
> the rendering related parts. The "Truetype" package will deal with 
> TTFontDescription and friends. Finally, the "Flash" package will deal 
> with the flash stuff in there. Since I am not planning to put any effort 
> into maintaining anything Morphic related I am interested in splitting 
> out and handing over the flash package alltogether. If you are 
> interested, let me know.
> 
> Finally, the graphics package. While stability is a major goal here too, 
> I am planning to do some modifications. This includes rectifying the 
> dichotomy between the "regular" and the "multi" text processing 
> facilities and to make sure that "multi" text processing is as fast (or 
> faster) as "regular" text processing. In the long term, this also 
> includes a better approach to scalable graphics (Ned's work with cairo 
> will play a role here).
> 
> None of these issues are any pressing matter, so it'll definitely take 
> some time to get done and I have no intention to declare victory by next 
> week or so ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
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