Just to relate with the outside world: GitHub, Bitbucket & Co have "forks"
as a solution. Since Monticello is distributed, Squeaksource could offer
the same feature.

To serve the purpose of reviving abandoned projects, such forks would have
to be made easily visible on the original project's page. Because without
project admin access, the original project description will obviously not
change to point to the newer repository.

Depending on the implementation it could be nearly the same as the inbox
proposal of Chris. Just that forks are not publicly writeable.



karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 5. Okt. 2022, 22:45:

>
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 10:38 PM Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The easiest tweak I can think of would be to add a "Inbox" tab to the
>> Project page.  Anyone can then be allowed to submit to the project.
>> Internally, all versions are stored in the same project directory, but the
>> legacy Versions tab would be changed to filter only the versions which are
>> authored by those with write access, while the Inbox tab would show those
>> without write access.
>>
>
> +1
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
>>
>> [image: ss-inbox-idea.png]
>>
>> Without the above, since only admin-level can delete submitted versions,
>> and configuration is a separate issue from source code repository, I've
>> started opening up my repositories for public write access.  Why did I ever
>> think I wanted to discourage contributions?  It theoretically opens them up
>> for spam attacks, but we haven't seen that with our Inbox.
>>
>>  - Chris
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 1:01 AM karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I made a small fix for the RayTracing project.
>>> http://www.squeaksource.com/RayTracing.html
>>> Vector needed to subclass Float32Array instead of FloatArray.
>>>
>>> But the RayTracing project is read only.
>>>
>>> Do we have a best practice for stuff like this?
>>> I uploaded the fix to my own squeaksource account
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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