Hi
I would like that you think a bit about our community and that there is
a value in using common tools
to share and develop common libraries. Because to me it feels like we
are getting balkanize.
It may look super cool and be hyper trendy to use github (because like
that you can say that you use latest hyper cool
features), but I would like to ask especially people building libraries
to pay attention that it is important
that other people can contribute back easily and that there is an easy
way to load/contribute.
Today I experienced Bloc
- I cannot load code and I cannot contribute.
- I saw mdl with a mixture between smalltalkhub and github (sounds
super hyper cool) and I saw paul not being able to contribute :(
Yes you can say that monticello sucks yes it is terrible yes we all fell
like Cobol programmers but at the end of the day.
Yes the herb is always greener elsewhere. Yes yes yes. Let us take some
facts.
We managed pharo and moose with it over the last 8 years successfully
and Pharo and moose are not 5 packages together from
what I can see. So pay attention about the decision you take.
Now we will provide git support (this is 8 months that nicolas is
exclusively working/thinking/dreaming
about that) and that we are doing experiments (Guille is managing the
bootstrap in github).
Now when everybody will have its own little project lost on github (I do
not count the amount of time I do not find pillar on github because I forget
that it is called pillar-markup), what will we do.
So we need an infrastructure to handle this and christophe is working on
this.
I think that you should consider the accidental complexity as something
that we can minimise by using patterns and common practices.
Now you can think that I'm an idiot and that I have no vision (be my
guest) but we should pay attention because we are a small community.
Stef
