Why do you mention Smalltalk at all actually? In my classes, I simply say that Pharo is inspired by Smalltalk, if I ever mention it It is easier to be convinced by the future than by the past.
Alexandre > Le 04-11-2013 à 6:58, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > I agree too, at worse this poll will show that Pharo is not abandonware and a > community that takes seriously popular feature requests. > > I would also love to see a progress bar per feature request or WIP features. > I am not talking here 100 features, even 10 will be enough to say that we are > moving forward. In irc I had several people pop in asking why pharo chose > smalltalk and is it not smalltalk "dead" etc ? So definetly this could help > kick the smalltalk stereotype from the mind of newcomers and show them we are > not big, but none the less quite active and open minded community. > > > > >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote: >> >> On 04 Nov 2013, at 09:41, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: >> >> > I don't think our community ever lacked of ideas. It is primarily >> > time/contributed work that is missing. >> I think that you are right on this. That’s why I think we need this ideas >> portal. So all the ideas are collected in one place and you can spot and >> when someone has time to contribute ha can check what ideas have the most >> amount of votes, etc… >> >> Uko >> >> > It is too easy to have a quick opinion that is based only on my current >> > mood. Should these guide the future development of pharo? That could do >> > more harm than it helps. >> > Nevertheless nice idea ;) >> > >> > Norbert >> > >> >> Am 04.11.2013 um 09:19 schrieb Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com>: >> >> >> >> I think that if we want to have it, we have to make something simple with >> >> an option to create ideas and simple voting. If it will be used then we >> >> can extend it. >> >> >> >> Uko >> >> >> >>> On 04 Nov 2013, at 09:15, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>>> On 04 Nov 2013, at 09:04, Camillo Bruni <camillobr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>>> On 2013-11-04, at 08:56, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>>> Am 04.11.2013 um 00:26 schrieb Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com>: >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> Hi everyone, >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> I’ve just got an idea (not something extra ordinary) to try out. >> >>>>>> Maybe we can make some kind of poll where community will be able to >> >>>>>> add new feature requests and vote for them. This way we can get an >> >>>>>> idea what is important to most of people. Eg. see how many votes are >> >>>>>> for the stateful traits and how many for the ability to quit image >> >>>>>> without prompt for saving. After writing last sentence I’ve figured >> >>>>>> out that it’s a good idea to be able also to vote down :) >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> But I think that this can be a nice experiment. Also as we are >> >>>>>> promoting and idea that “Pharo is made by you”, then new feature poll >> >>>>>> is nice to have. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> I have this gut feeling there should something around three levels of >> >>>>> acknowledgement: >> >>>>> >> >>>>> - I like it >> >>>>> - I need it really >> >>>>> - I like or need it and will spend time doing it >> >>>> >> >>>> yes, the "I am willing to contribute" is important! >> >>> >> >>> or even, “I am willing to pay" >> >> >> >> >> > >
