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, but we just do not have the resources > > (is already a blessing that we can work on this, for now: INRIA is > paying, > > but what it pays is *research*, not “pharo the language”, so this is a > collateral advantage….) > > > 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. > > 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 kicks JVM's ass :D > Same boat here. > > > So, I refuse to believe that we cannot be a cool and helpful community. > > We are. > We are indeed. > Email sometimes is counterproductive to the health of the > communication. It's like a fence between us. > And as the saying, transliterated, goes: "We're like dogs barking at > both sides of the fence that when together they smell at each other > and waggle their tails." :) > We should Hangout more. > > > In conclusion: not helping does not help :) > > Please consider than USING Pharo is a way to contribute to it. > Even if you had infinite manpower but no one uses it, it would be > worthless. > +1 > > > Esteban, still grateful of belonging to this community > ditto :) > ditto :) > > Regards! > > Peace, Phil
