I agree 100% with Thierry. I wrote and complain about it months ago: we need consolidation in the newly developed stuff we have. So it may mean to slow down and polishing. Because from my point of view, I don't understand where is moving Pharo, but true it is moving.
Hilaire Le 03/10/2014 17:07, Thierry Goubier a écrit : > unsatisfying "now" situation. I'll carefully evaluate what new stuff is > integrated. New stuff I look to see if they are usable (libcgit > integration, TxText) and what I see is stuff that builds on unstable core > libs extensions (NativeBoost, Athens) on top of an already unstable version > (4.0), and I'm really not impressed by the software development process. > > The end result is, when I see a bug, I'm already at least two versions > behind you guys... so there's nothing worth reporting. There is some > progress on the way things are being done (thanks Marcus for doing the > deprecation API backporting on 3.0) and not much on others (and I speak of > methodology, not of new features being added on). > > If you have the feeling that I don't contribute the way I should or the way > you would like, step back and ask yourself if this is not my "unspoken" way > of me saying that I don't find a way to contribute, or that contributing > effectively is too costly. > > And look! This is not a matter of resources, but maybe a matter of slowing > down a bit, so that the poor community members with limited resources like > me that are not full time on Pharo 4.0 development may catch up :) And > please, no more rejection of feedback, even negative. It just gives me the > feeling you are overstreched, and that Pharo has a problem setting its > goals. -- Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu
