[squeak-dev] Squeak Oversight Board minutes – 5/17/11

Chris Cunnington smalltalktelevision at gmail.com
Wed May 18 11:50:50 UTC 2011


Squeak Oversight Board minutes – 5/17/11

Attending: Chris Cunnington (aka TO), Chris Muller, Bert Freudenberg, 
Randal Schwartz, Colin Putney, Levente Uzonyi


 From memory, not taken in order at the time:

-       Colin brought up the recent discussion of namespaces on 
squeak-dev. The Board discussed the pros and cons of various namespace 
implementations and whether or not Squeak actually needs namespaces. 
Colin volunteered to investigate further and report back to the Board 
and the next meeting.

-       The problems of SqueakSource discussed on the Pharo board were 
explored, and Board was in general agreement that SmalltalkHub would be 
a worthwhile thing to explore in future

-       It was suggested that by 4.3 some packages might be removed from 
the image. Nebraska was suggested, which brought the response that it 
was really a part of Morphic.

-       The idea of making the entire GUI replaceable would be desirable 
instead of removing pieces of Morphic. Morphic could be removed entirely 
and replaced with a slimmer version. Or another GUI (MVC? Tweak?)

-       TO said he’d get a working version of a new SMServer running on 
map.smalltalktelevision.com by the middle of June. The Board generally 
agreed that the SqueakMap image running in the Squeak server needs to be 
replaced.

-       TO said he’d ask Craig Latta when Spoon might be released in its 
new form, as it would be a worthwhile model to explore for a smaller 
image, which was agreed is important to the community. (answer: “current 
estimate 1 June”)



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