On 08.10.2009, at 10:18, Ronald Spengler wrote:

> I think an extras repo would be cool. I'm in the midst of some
> experiments with factoring a skinning infrastructure out of Polymorph,
> and when I come up with the right approach, it won't look much like
> polymorph anymore (I could create a new project on Squeaksource.com)
> and won't be stable enough to go into a base image any time soon. One
> of the design decisions I've made is to throw out compat with forks,
> so it does make sense to track the work along side that of the trunk.
>
> Another good reason to have an extras repo is: people who are doing
> work on applications which don't belong in a base image will have the
> opportunity to participate in the process with the same tools that the
> trunk uses. So we'll feel the same pain with the outages, etc. This
> encourages people working on their own projects to contribute fixes to
> squeaksource, etc.

While I agree having an extras repo would be good, I wouldn't see it  
as repository for applications. Those have a fine place at squeaksource.com 
  IMHO. "Extras" on source.squeak.org would rather contain stuff  
specific to Squeak trunk, no?

- Bert -