Hi,

it's a nice release yes - and the best we ever provided indeed. I'm really 
happy too that P7 image is an 
official release now. 


But still:
==========

In a post [1] in November 2017 I brought up the topic again to "increase the 
quality level in Pharo 7 and onwards". 

With 762 commits [2] for Pharo 7 I devoted a lot of time in fixing often simple 
and trivial things just to clean up 
comments, code, typos, packages, manifests, tests and so on. 

Many others did the same and supported these cleaning efforts. This helped 
adding a few more release tests to keep the 
quality bar on the level reached. Special thanks to Marcus, Esteban, and many 
others who helped reviewing, fighting a 
shaky CI server, integrating quickly and so on ...

Still THIS IS NOT FINISHED ... and it would be really help if more people would 
participate in the cleaning or fixing bugs.
Also many external packages now need some love to work with Pharo 7. 

We have a large community with many, many users - but still only a few 
contribute to the core system.

I wonder why and would like to know: 
  - Is it due to the switch to git ?
  - Is is due to the new contribution process?
  - Is it for other reasons?

Remember: Pharo is yours and even small steps could make a difference. So 
please join!

Thanks
T. 


[1]  
http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Quality-raising-the-quality-level-in-Pharo-7-and-onwards-tt5027111.html#none
[2]  https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/graphs/contributors


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