Hi everybody > On 24 Jan 2019, at 20:36, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Thanks for it. > > 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 … Yes. I think that with Iceberg and git we can now be a lot faster to integrate simple fixes. > 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. Definitively. What is important is that when we have to deal with little issues this is difficult to work on larger ones. I’m resurrecting the code of the classParser and UndefinedClasses right now (checking/adding tests). > 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 this is a good message. We will produce a video during the next techTalk showing how easy it is to contribute. > 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 > >
