On Dec 20, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
> On 12/20/2011 01:32 AM, James Ladd wrote:
>>
>> Hey everyone,
>> So this is the skinny. We've met the
>> basic requirements original discussed with Jet Brains early in 2011 for
>> Redline Smalltalk support to make it onto their roadmap.
>> We need your
>> help to get it moved up. Jet Brains has a voting system where registered
>> users vote up features they want to see implemented.
>> As of today, there
>> is now one for Redline support. The next step is pretty simple...
>>
>> We need everyone to sign in with google/Yahoo or sign up for a Jet Brains
>> account and vote for Redline support.We need you to tweet about it.... to
>> email people about it.... to google + about it.
>> ... to stand on the street corner talking about how the world is going to
>> come to an end unless this happens.
>> This could be a big deal and your help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEA-79069
>>
>
> If I was JetBrains I'd be pretty pissed if I got 500 votes for this,
> implemented it, and then sold only two copies because nobody voting was
> actually considering buying IDEA at any point.
>
> Don't treat this as "Do you think Smalltalk is cool?", treat this as
> "Would you buy IDEA if it had this?".
>
In addition, I would wait for a 1.0 release *and* to have some real users.
Voting for something not yet released looks strange.
Marcus
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