On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:54 AM Norbert Hartl <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Am 11.04.2019 um 15:29 schrieb Mariano Martinez Peck < > [email protected]>: > > Hi Esteban, > > We talk this privately a couple of weeks ago, but I thought it was worth > writing again here. As for other IDE's being enjoyable, I can only talk > about VASmalltalk. If there is ONE thing I enjoy from it, is the stability. > May be ugly, may be too-windows, may be full of menus you don't understand > what they do, but it's really rock solid. > Pharo has been doing a LOT of progress on so many areas and its expected > to decrease a bit on stability. Unless you are Oracle and can hire 100 > engineers. > So, my small recommendation to you back then was to make at least ONE > release (called LTS or whatever) were you just focus on stability and bugs. > No new features. No new framework. Just stability. Make it rock solid. Then > after that release, you can keep moving forward, but that would give > companies and really really stable Pharo to rely on. > > For the provision of an LTS version we need more engineers. If there are > enough companies that need a rock solid stable version then the consortium > will have enough money to hire engineers for that. > Well, either that or convince the community that that is a good thing. Obviously, when you don't pay for that and things come for free it's understandable you can't decide on what type of effort/results you get. And for almost all of us, is much way more cool to provide a new framework, a new tool, etc than bug fixing and testing. > I would put a virtual machine that we can control much higher on the list > of things we should have. > > Norbert > > Best, > > -- > Mariano Martinez Peck > Email: [email protected] > Twitter: @MartinezPeck > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/ > > -- Mariano Martinez Peck Email: [email protected] Twitter: @MartinezPeck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/
