With Monticello-cmm.569 it seems to be doing the right things. Very nice!

One question - Browse mc versions gives a patch browser that displays the
versions, but it does not seem to be showing method timestamp and author
initial information, or the mc origin of each method version. Is this
not yet implemented, or am I missing something in my image that is present
in yours?

Thanks,
Dave


On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 11:33:15AM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
> Ok, please merge Monticello-cmm.568 from the Inbox and the new SCM
> features should work!
> 
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:22 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > Bravo! This is great stuff.
> >
> > I loaded Monticello-cmm.566 from the inbox, and I want to try out the
> > new 'browse mc origin' and 'browse mc versions' feature, which shows
> > up in the methods pane and class list pane as promised. But I can't
> > figure out how to activate them so they are not greyed out??? I'm trying
> > to browse a class in the sound package (just to see what it does), so
> > I added the http://box4.squeak.org:8888/trunk repository to package
> > Sound in my MC browser, but no joy. How do I activate the 'browse mc versions'
> > feature?
> >
> > Thanks for doing this Chris!
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 04:46:46PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
> >> An on-going concern of the community is sustaining and improving our
> >> trunk development process.  Currently source.squeak.org employs an old
> >> version of SqueakSource running on an old Squeak 3.x image on an old
> >> interpreter VM.  I have deployed a prototype replacement on box4 with
> >> several improvements:
> >>
> >>   - It is running on the latest trunk image with a recent Cog VM.
> >>   - The SqueakSource package has been upgraded to generically support
> >> any type of backend instead of only a Filesystem-based back end.
> >>   - A new subclass for a Magma-based back end was added and used by
> >> the prototype.
> >>   - Startup time is > 10X faster than with the FileSystem (which uses
> >> ReferenceStream).
> >>   - Commits are > 100X faster because it's simply a DB commit rather
> >> than re-serializing the entire model with ReferenceStream for every
> >> change.
> >>   - However, we will not notice a speed up because we have hacked
> >> SqueakSource to bypass the Filesystem subclass for a
> >> save-the-image-every-hour persistence.  But this is unsustainable and
> >> dangerous.
> >>   - The SqueakSource-software now responds to SIGTERM to conduct a
> >> graceful shutdown and exit.
> >>   - Use of the Magma back end improves the SCM tool by letting us
> >> browse all 'mc versions' of any method or class-definition.  We can
> >> also browse the 'mc origin' of same -- which is just the oldest
> >> version it is known to exist in (which, if we would ensure ALL
> >> ancestry is present, then it will truly be the origin).  Happy
> >> birthday Tim Rowledge.
> >>
> >> I have done VERY minimal testing.  But we need to finally begin the
> >> process of moving this crucial component our community away from the
> >> costly Hetzner box and onto Gandi-based servers provided by the SFC,
> >> so please try it and provide feedback!
> >>
> >> To use the new prototype:
> >>
> >>   1) Use a recent trunk image.
> >>   2) Install Monticello-cmm.565 from the Inbox.  'browse mc versions'
> >> and 'browse mc origin' will be added to methods and class-list menus
> >> (but are initially grayed out).
> >>   3) Add this repository to Monticello:
> >>
> >>     MCHttpRepository
> >>         location: 'http://box4.squeak.org:8888/trunk'
> >>         user: 'id'
> >>         password: 'pw'
> >>
> >>   4) Add the above repository to whichever packages you wish to invoke
> >> the new SCM features.
> >>
> >>  - Chris
> >>
> >> PS -- This prototype only has data loaded for the trunk project as of
> >> about one week ago.  It is not kept in-sync with production trunk,
> >> this is just a test.
> >