[squeak-dev] Make the trunk stream more discoverable? (was: Docs on Contributing to Squeak)

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 04:48:12 UTC 2022


Please add a warning that Trunk is bleeding edge, that the image can and
will break. But it is still fun for the most part :-D

Best,
Karl

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 1:45 AM Jaromir Matas <mail at jaromir.net> wrote:

> >> Now that you mention it, this is easy to overlook and I wonder how
> many new users even know that the trunk stream is available to them?
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> > I agree with Dave that switching update streams is too hidden and would
> be very convenient to change with "one click".
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> +1, very much agree with Daveā€¦ I had no idea about a trunk. I would have
> appreciated such convenience/encouragement to switch to the trunk when
> started :)
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> Jaromir
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> *From: *Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, September 28, 2022 23:35
> *To: *The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [squeak-dev] Make the trunk stream more discoverable?
> (was: Docs on Contributing to Squeak)
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> I agree with Dave that switching update streams is too hidden and would be
> very convenient to change with "one click".  Whatever UI approach is chosen
> to expose it better, please ensure the action ends up also ensuring
> whichever one is switched to (trunk) is the top HTTP repository in each
> MCWorkingCopy, so that the revisions will be ready to go as well.
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>  - Chris
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> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 2:48 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> Dave is suggesting another option in the menu, not a pop-up thing.
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> I'd also consider making it part of the dialogue that already pops up at
> the end of an update -
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> In the default downloaded state it shows the Url as 'http://source.squeak.org/squeak60'.
> If we added a button 'update from trunk from now on
> <http://source.squeak.org/squeak60'.%20If%20we%20added%20a%20button%20'update%20from%20trunk%20from%20now%20on>'
> this would be reasonably obvious and very easy to use.
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> On 2022-09-28, at 12:04 PM, Thiede, Christoph <
> Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
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> I would deem an extra pop-up too intrusive. Probably many people use a
> stable release image deliberately and only want to receive backported
> patches for that. But maybe we could add a short note into the Transcript
> or the "updated completed" dialog?
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> tim
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