Hi, Here is a thought I want to share with you. Please don't misunderstand me. I'm really valuing the effort that people put into pharo, but I think sharing this will hopefully result in improving our system.
I believe that back-porting is a false good idea. Consider simply this question: what is the 2.0 release? The latest version or the one release this summer? There are valuable bugfixes and enhancements that were integrated in the latest 2.0. But, I believe that this may cause some frustration among users since the API/features might evolve a bit (it happened to me, and it seems that I'm not the only one). Rather than changing 2.0, I suggest to introduce 2.1 if the community really believes that 2.0 isn't good enough. Same for future versions. Once we are confident enough with a RC, we should freeze it. Only critical bugfixes should be backported in yet another minor version. Noury Ecole des Mines de Douai http://car.mines-douai.fr/noury --
