Squeak Roadmap ...

karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Fri Sep 21 23:09:17 UTC 2007


GeertC wrote:
> Where can the community find what the leadership's roadmap and progress for
> Squeak is? I hear from quite a few users - some have even experimented
> themselves - to strip down the Squeak image, allowing users to choose what
> is in their image. Another major change request involves the UI to give
> users at least an option - die-hard Squeakers actually seem to like the
> current ui for some reason :) - to have a more intuitive gui. I reckon
> Squeak needs some public visible roadmap and progress indicator like some
> other open source projects have (Trac?)
>   
Squeak is lacking some tools which can make image stripping and 
rebuilding a easy task. Also lot of projects done in Squeak have their 
code base so intertwined with various parts of Squeak that separating 
them is a humongous undertaking.
Karl
>
> Craig Latta wrote:
>   
>>       Squeak's board was elected by the community; it doesn't need 
>> quotation marks around it. :)  I'm a member of the board, and my view is 
>> that yes, a lot of people would like to see major changes to Squeak, 
>> many of them contradictory. It is indeed a can of worms.
>>
>>       Ultimately, any technical decisions the leadership makes will 
>> upset some significant part of the community. As with many communities, 
>> this may lead to wildly different decisions as the leadership changes 
>> over time, as well as growth and attrition in the community itself.
>>
>>     
>
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