I think Chris just took the car:)

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andreas wrote:
>
> > Well, I don't *think* of it as SqueakMap but the comparison is somewhat
> > appropriate. The main reason why I don't think of it as SM is that SM
> wants
> > to be "all packages ever created for Squeak" but what we need is "all
> > packages that we've actually tested to work in this image".
>
> Every version of every SqueakMap package declares which image version
> it is for.  In fact, it even includes additional tags such as whether
> it makes any modifications to that base image.
>
> Currently, there is no 4.2 entry in SqueakMap so, regardless of the
> quality of this tag for past versions, there is an opportunity for,
> going forward, to simply *test it* before posting it...
>
> Not that that should really matter, given usual (MIT) license which
> completely denies fitness for a particular puporse..
>
> > And of course
> > there are some other differences (like community ownership instead of
> > individual ownership of the catalog elements)
>
> To put this shallow shortcoming to rest, I have a mind to create a new
> SqueakMap account called, "Community" and announce the password for it
> here on this list:  "squeak"...
>
> We can take charge behind the scenes to add "Community" as a
> co-maintainer of all existing SqueakMap projects.  We can then
> announce, on this list, "if you don't want your package to be
> community-maintaintable, then remove Community as a co-maintainer."
>
> Any unrepresented projects will, therefore, not have a advocate to
> remove it and therefore keep  Community account as a co-maintainer.
>
> > but other than that I agree;
>
> That's it then?  Cool!!  Let's breakout the SqueakMap!  :-D
>
>  - Chris
>
>


-- 
Casey Ransberger
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