Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> 
> 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
> 


Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> 
> ... volunteer to be beta tester ?
> 

I volunteer. And being on Linux and a mouse user, I seem to hit a lot of the
wrinkles.


Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> 
> I don't know the best solution for this
> 

Mariano, Adrian's fix does indeed seem to fix up this whole area. After
running it, I can get right through the menus to run code critics, and
right/left/middle clicks don't cause problem. It would seem the image on the
download page should be replaced ASAP with one which has had this operation.


Adrian Kuhn wrote:
> 
>     Gofer it 
>         wiresong: 'ob'; 
>         package: 'OB-Refactory'; 
>         revert 
> 
> this will revert all conflicting package extensions of O2 back to those of
> OB 
>  so that you can work with both the green and the yellow browser of OB.
> 

Mariano, thanks for bringing this into sharp focus. As Bart identified, it's
been a real concern that our "shop window" has been broken like this.

...Stan

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