[squeak-dev] March 24th, 2014 -- Squeak Board Meeting Minutes

Chris Muller ma.chris.m at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 18:20:45 UTC 2014


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All members were present.  With so much going on in the community
recently, we had a lively discussion in the board meeting today.  This
was a make-up meeting due to an untimely outage with Google Hangouts
during our normal meeting time last week.

Thank you, Ken Causey!

On March 10th, Ken officially announced his retirement as leader of
the box-admins team.  Ken had been warning us for some time that he
was winding down his involvement.  There is not a soul in the
community who will not miss his professional-level service as our
server admin.  Thank you Ken, for a job well-done.

Check out PathView

Recently Michael Perscheid announced PathView, a new IDE tools
collection.  While it didn't generate much discussion on the mailing
list yet, it is very much worth having a look.  There were definite,
good first-impressions about PathView expressed by the board members.

New Release 4.5 and a new squeak.org Website

The release of Squeak 4.5 coincides with a new draft-release of a new
squeak.org website, led by Chris Cunnington.  Altitude is the newest
web-framework under development for Squeak.  Redoing the squeak.org
with Altitude lets us change up the years-old look of the old site
while allowing us to exercise and grow into Altitude.

The reception to the new site has been positive.  Chris C. has
responded to several change requests.  Naturally, all in the community
care about Squeak's web-presence, but updates desired by the community
should not be the burden of a single individual.  The next steps are
to discover what role(s) and webteam-level access permissions are
needed to enable community-level participation in the new site.

Squeak 5!

There was consensus that we would like Squeak release cycles to be a
bit shorter :) -- preferably every six months.  Eliot believes Spur,
and the associated image-format changes needed to support it, will be
ready well in time for the next release, which will be called Squeak 5
on account of the image-format change.  Craig's Spoon / Naiad work
might be put in as Squeak 6, then.


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