Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-10 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi guys - this was an interesting thread - and exactly the reason why I brought up “Zapp Empowerment” at ESUG this year. I felt the passion from every single one of you - and in fact, everyone had an interesting point to make. I got a bit nervous as I worked up the 40+ replies, but I was

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-10 Thread Ben Coman
Tim Mackinnon wrote: Hi guys - this was an interesting thread - and exactly the reason why I brought up “Zapp Empowerment” at ESUG this year. just to let you know, based on your enthusiasm for this book, I bought it (but not yet read it). And one minor thought on the original post that

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-06 Thread Florin Mateoc
Hi Thierry, On 10/4/2014 5:32 PM, Thierry Goubier wrote: I do have specific tools I can use in such circumstances that you don't have. What kind of tools? I would be interested in learning about them and the analysis use cases

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-06 Thread Thierry Goubier
Hi Florin, you're in for some interesting questions :) First, I did not have a methodology for finding the issue (or explaining the algorithm) when I started, and I didn't have one afterwards; you need to look into the WhyLine stuff for that (they do a lot better, but I don't have the time to

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-06 Thread Florin Mateoc
Hi Thierry, On 10/6/2014 9:37 AM, Thierry Goubier wrote: Hi Florin, you're in for some interesting questions :) First, I did not have a methodology for finding the issue (or explaining the algorithm) when I started, and I didn't have one afterwards; you need to look into the WhyLine

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-05 Thread Hernán Morales Durand
2014-10-03 17:03 GMT-03:00 stepharo steph...@free.fr: On 3/10/14 18:56, Hernán Morales Durand wrote: I have the same feeling. Pharo is yours, but I take the main decisions. Actually it feels a little bit insulting, I am using Pharo since several years in a domain which nobody works with

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-04 Thread Ben Coman
Tudor Girba wrote: Hi Ben, On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Ben Coman b...@openinworld.com mailto:b...@openinworld.com wrote: Tudor Girba wrote: Hi, Indeed, you are right about noting that the situation will look different in a couple of months from now.

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-04 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi Thierry, On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Thierry Goubier thierry.goub...@gmail.com wrote: [...] And now, to make integration easier, we pile more stuff on top of the existing, bound to be removed, infrastructure: Glamour, Rubric, etc... And both Glamour and Spec don't make it easy to

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-04 Thread Thierry Goubier
Le 04/10/2014 08:14, Tudor Girba a écrit : Hi Thierry, On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Thierry Goubier thierry.goub...@gmail.com mailto:thierry.goub...@gmail.com wrote: [...] And now, to make integration easier, we pile more stuff on top of the existing, bound to be removed,

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-04 Thread kilon alios
exactly and most of us are aware of these tools and the fact that are very useful because a) we are registered in the moose mailing list b) because you have posted a few demonstrations videos about their use here, in the moose mailing list and in tweeter. I am very excited that you push pharo

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-04 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi, On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Thierry Goubier thierry.goub...@gmail.com wrote: Le 04/10/2014 08:14, Tudor Girba a écrit : Hi Thierry, On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Thierry Goubier thierry.goub...@gmail.com mailto:thierry.goub...@gmail.com wrote: [...] And now, to make

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-04 Thread stepharo
On 3/10/14 23:03, Alain Rastoul wrote: Le 03/10/2014 22:10, stepharo a écrit : Hi Stef, I like your metaphor , and yes, I really hope to share my personal soup with Pharo community asap. A soup about databases, json, streaming/map reduce stuff I've been thinking (and still thinking) for a

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-04 Thread Thierry Goubier
Hi, Le 04/10/2014 11:54, Tudor Girba a écrit : And now you are starting to have the issue of handling slices on GT from Pharo: do people have to register on Moose, resynchronize on GT on Moose, push their slices there, wait for Moose to push a slice to integrate on Pharo, wait

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-04 Thread Thierry Goubier
Le 04/10/2014 12:07, stepharo a écrit : NativeBoost is not unstable for me, but why libcgit is on a bleeding edge NativeBoost version then? I do not get what you want to say. May be restating will help me understand. Last time I checked, libcgit was tied to an experimental NativeBoost

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-04 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi Thierry, On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Thierry Goubier thierry.goub...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Le 04/10/2014 11:54, Tudor Girba a écrit : And now you are starting to have the issue of handling slices on GT from Pharo: do people have to register on Moose, resynchronize on GT

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread kilon alios
First of all, if you are referring to me I never said this is a shit. Second what you see as negativity I see it as honesty and for me is far more important than Pharo is yours. Assuming honesty does not become rudeness. Third I dont recall anyone ever demanding a feature of you guys working

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
I’m not talking about you or anyone else in particular. I’m talking about a general attitude I’m sensing. Now, I can be wrong… of course (and I hope) :) Esteban On 03 Oct 2014, at 14:27, kilon alios kilon.al...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, if you are referring to me I never said this is

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread J.F. Rick
Hi Esteban, seconding your points, it is important to acknowledge why a solid Pharo core is important and worth striving towards even if it can be painful. First, read Bret Victor's reflection on Doug Englebart: http://worrydream.com/#!/Engelbart He makes the case that the vision that drove

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Esteban A. Maringolo
2014-10-03 8:44 GMT-03:00 Esteban Lorenzano esteba...@gmail.com: Please people, we (the pharo “core” team) cannot do everything. We do not have the manpower or the resources to hire manpower. We would like, but we just do not have the resources (is already a blessing that we can work on this,

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread p...@highoctane.be
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo emaring...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-03 8:44 GMT-03:00 Esteban Lorenzano esteba...@gmail.com: Please people, we (the pharo “core” team) cannot do everything. We do not have the manpower or the resources to hire manpower. We would like,

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Thierry Goubier
Hi Esteban, I'm not sure my answer will please you or stef, and maybe I shouldn't voice it, staying being a customer instead of contributing the way you want it. Hard words, but yours are hard too. I'd say simply that Pharo is successfull, fairly successfull for someone like me. It allows me to

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Hernán Morales Durand
2014-10-03 9:27 GMT-03:00 kilon alios kilon.al...@gmail.com: First of all, if you are referring to me I never said this is a shit. Second what you see as negativity I see it as honesty and for me is far more important than Pharo is yours. Assuming honesty does not become rudeness. Third I

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread kilon alios
Generalisations and assumptions lead nowhere , personally I prefer someone that will tell me fuck you I don't like your attitude than someone that tries via diplomacy to make a point just so he does not raise the tentions and hurt egos. If there is such a problem as you claim and you are serious

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread stepharo
On 3/10/14 14:58, J.F. Rick wrote: Hi Esteban, seconding your points, it is important to acknowledge why a solid Pharo core is important and worth striving towards even if it can be painful. First, read Bret Victor's reflection on Doug Englebart: http://worrydream.com/#!/Engelbart

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread stepharo
So, having an OPEN SOURCE project, with limited resources means that there is a lot of things that depend on the community. It depends on the community not just to fix, but to enlarge the ecosystem in general too. It is a matter of tolerance and patience. Not only it is a matter of people

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread stepharo
On 3/10/14 17:07, Thierry Goubier wrote: Hi Esteban, I'm not sure my answer will please you or stef, and maybe I shouldn't voice it, staying being a customer instead of contributing the way you want it. Hard words, but yours are hard too. I'd say simply that Pharo is successfull, fairly

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi, On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:48 PM, stepharo steph...@free.fr wrote: You see we started Athens more than two years ago. It is a success for external tools like moose and Roassal but without TxText Athens will just be a nice package not change the face of Pharo and we will get there.

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread stepharo
Fourth I have to say that I really don't get the Pharo is yours motto. Is there software out there , open source or not that does not listen to its community and does not try hard to makes its users happy ? Pharo is not mine, If I designed Pharo I would make a lot more diffirent choices than

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Hilaire
Le 03/10/2014 13:44, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit : I’m writing this because I’m sad about what is happening in this list. Hi Esteban, Don't be sad about negativity. I think it is a sign of good health for Pharo. First of all it is a feedback, it should raise a red flag somewhere: some

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread stepharo
On 3/10/14 18:56, Hernán Morales Durand wrote: I have the same feeling. Pharo is yours, but I take the main decisions. Actually it feels a little bit insulting, I am using Pharo since several years in a domain which nobody works with Smalltalk, and never got a survey request (except for

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread stepharo
TxText will happen. It's too important to leave it unhappening :). Oh yes like OSWindow, GTToolkit and many other things. :) Stef

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread stepharo
Thanks alain. Here is my metaphor: I help myself and share my soup of stones with people that want to improve our soup of stones. At the end our soup may be great. Another way to present my metaphor is: focus on what you need and change the system (and send us fixes/enhancements) on what you

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread stepharo
Thanks Hilaire. Yes you know it pretty well being a producer is sometimes tiring :) Stef Le 03/10/2014 13:44, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit : I’m writing this because I’m sad about what is happening in this list. Hi Esteban, Don't be sad about negativity. I think it is a sign of good health for

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Esteban A. Maringolo
2014-10-03 16:42 GMT-03:00 stepharo steph...@free.fr: You keep doing your great job, but accept that we, outside of the internal, core, revolutionary research being made, might have mundane necessities. That on the daily basis have more importance than a futuristic 128bit manycore vm that

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Hilaire
I agree 100% with Thierry. I wrote and complain about it months ago: we need consolidation in the newly developed stuff we have. So it may mean to slow down and polishing. Because from my point of view, I don't understand where is moving Pharo, but true it is moving. Hilaire Le 03/10/2014

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi, The intention of the message of Esteban is to urge people to be positive. Nothing else. Keep in mind that email is a rather poor environment and simply ask yourself before sending a message if it can have a chance of leading to something better. Positive does not mean no criticism. On the

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Alain Rastoul
Le 03/10/2014 22:10, stepharo a écrit : Hi Stef, I like your metaphor , and yes, I really hope to share my personal soup with Pharo community asap. A soup about databases, json, streaming/map reduce stuff I've been thinking (and still thinking) for a while now. All of that still in an alpha

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Thierry Goubier
Le 03/10/2014 21:48, stepharo a écrit : On 3/10/14 17:07, Thierry Goubier wrote: Hi Esteban, I'm not sure my answer will please you or stef, and maybe I shouldn't voice it, staying being a customer instead of contributing the way you want it. Hard words, but yours are hard too. I'd say

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread Ben Coman
Thierry Goubier wrote: Le 03/10/2014 21:48, stepharo a écrit : On 3/10/14 17:07, Thierry Goubier wrote: Hi Esteban, I'm not sure my answer will please you or stef, and maybe I shouldn't voice it, staying being a customer instead of contributing the way you want it. Hard words, but yours are