2012/2/21 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> > Hi janko > > > More polishing and boring bug hunting tasks therefore and just a bit > > less fundamental rewritings like compiler etc. > > Did you ever look at one bug entry? > You see the bug entry does not magically empty itself. There are people > like me and marcus > and a couple of others that are looking at reports, producing fixes... >
Hi Stef: This may or may not be the proper site to put my feelings, but still, they are with the intention of help and construct. When Pharo not existed, and almost all of us were in Squeak (I'm still there, only watching now) I remember to be worried all the time by have 3000 or more unread mails, lot of threads and talks that I couldn't follow. And the other problem was all the time all things changing, then we had in Smalltalk the sort of problems that we criticized in other platforms, the software written today will not run tomorrow in the new version (I remember for example Squeak modules, around 2003). Now It's happening to me that I'm having more than 6000 unread mails in the Pharo main list (and more than 700 in pharo users) and the Pharo ecosystem grew up at a limit very hard to follow to me. I tried to help in different ways, solving bugs, building somethings as xmlrpc (with the invaluable help of ESUG) but happens that (having other 2 jobs to survive) is not easy to find the free time to help, and this is worst when the ecosystem grew as is happening with Pharo (lot of different ideas, frameworks, ways to do the things) I'm not crying, only describ my reality, I would love to be some sort of researcher working all time in cool stuff as Pharo and friends, but unfortunately is not my reality and in this context, find free time to help is a problem, and a previous worst problem is find free time to follow the community, understand the context and be up to date with all the new things and how they change and affect the already written software. Example: xmlrpc died before to born, worked only in 1.1.1, now I must find time to update it to zinc and 1.3 but with the fear that again will not work in 1.4. Just my feelings. Cheers.
