Hi folks. I am really concerned about the instability of the dev and web
images. WE CANNOT RELEASE a RC where you cannot even double click in a
class. This cannot happens. We all know that all software can have bugs. But
again, we cannot release images, and even RC images, which are supposed to
be quite stable, where you cannot right click a class, you cannot refactor,
you cannot even right click in the code pane. And don't told me "I use the
keyboard" because I don't care what you do. A lot of people use the mouse.

I have already said it several times. Most of the people don't care how
nice, fast, clean, open source and well programmed is the Pharo Core image
if they cannot use the Dev or Web image.

Remember that our users are external users, you even don't care about the
core. They just use Pharo, they are not developers.

I really think we need to fix this. You are giving a bad impression of
something which is not true. You are doing AN EXCELLENT work with PharoCore.
Why to wast all of this for this kind of situations? It is a pity :(

I don't know the best solution for this. I will only give an idea I have,
but I would really like to hear you ideas and do something with this.

1) We are building a dev image per month more or lest. 5 days before en of
months (more or less), the dev image should be built.

2) During 5 years, some people will use that image as a beta tester. I would
ideally to have different users: different OS, different browsers, etc.
This people will use that image for their work for those 5 days and report
any bug that appears. Of course, not all people can do that.
How is volunteer to be beta tester ?  We can create a wiki page for that if
you are agree with the idea.

3) After those 5 days, if the image is stable enough, it is released. If it
is not, it is just not released. Nobody will kill you if one month you don't
release a new image. In addition, is better not to release an unstable image
that releasing it and not be able to do a single right click.

In Canonical, all the employees MUST to use for one month or more each
Ubuntu release. We are not employee, but we can do something similar.

What do you think ?

Cheers

Mariano


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stan Shepherd <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Subject: [Pharo-project] Issue 1721: Refactoring appears to be broken in web
dev image. e.g. OBClassNode(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #dynamicProtocols
To: [email protected]



NB this logs a particular walkback, but the whole area appears to be
unworkable in the web dev image. Please could the maintainers click, right
click, middle click on each part of refactoring browser, take each menu
item, etc. This will be much quicker than logging one bug at a time.
If this turns out to be the last one, my apologies in advance.
Thanks.   ...Stan


VM: unix - i686 - linux-gnu - Pharo0.1 of 16 May 2008 [latest update:
#10074]
Image: PharoCore1.0rc1 [Latest update: #10502] pharo1.0-10502-rc1web09.12.2

Class browser used (if applicable):  OR2PackageBrowser.

OBClassNode(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #dynamicProtocols
       Receiver: OBClassNode<ShortIntegerArray>
       Arguments and temporary variables:
               aMessage:       dynamicProtocols
               exception:      MessageNotUnderstood:
OBClassNode>>dynamicProtocols
               resumeValue:    nil
       Receiver's instance variables:
               metaNode:       Class
#allCategory->AllMethodCategory
#categories->MethodCategory
#dy...etc...
               navigation:     an O2DefaultEdgeNavigation
               theClass:       ShortIntegerArray

O2MetaEdge>>nodesForParent:
       Receiver: #dynamicProtocols->DynamicProtocols
       Arguments and temporary variables:
               aNode:  OBClassNode<ShortIntegerArray>
       Receiver's instance variables:
               label:  'dynamicProtocols'
               selector:       #dynamicProtocols
               metaNode:       DynamicProtocols
#methods->Method

               navigation:     an O2DefaultEdgeNavigation
               isDropEdge:     nil

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