"solo sprint" hahahaha AWESOME. Lots of us do solo sprints :) On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:20 AM, laurent laffont <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thank you Dale. > > Laurent. > > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Dale Henrichs <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Okay, okay.... I've been trying to keep a half dozen balls in the air for >> the last few weeks and what that means is that I don't give enough attention >> to any of them ... >> >> Pharo1.2 is close and Metacello is one of the bad boys with the failing >> tests sooooo, I am going to do a solo sprint this weekend: >> >> 1. a quick release of Metacello with expectedFailures for the tests >> that are failing in Pharo1.2. I have already fixed the tests >> (only test changes are needed), but I now need to port the Gofer >> changes to Squeak and GemStone which is a bigger job. A quick >> surgical set of expectedFailures is the best thing to do here. >> 2. in build #57 of Pharo1.2 I noticed some odd things that I want to >> track down... >> 3. I expect that some of the #57 issues can be revealed with the >> validator, so I am thinking that I will run the validator over >> all of the configurations that are used in Pharo1.2 and go about >> identify and/or fixing the meaningful issues that I find. My main >> goal will be to repair things that are broken, so I will be >> reluctant to make semantic changes without checking with the >> maintainers, but if the problem is really gruesome I will fix it >> and apologize later:) >> 4. I'm not going to spend a lot of time reading/writing email ... >> this will be a sprint not a coffee klatch. With that said, if you >> have a Metacello config issue that is related to Pharo1.2 drop me >> an email with your question/thought but don't be offended if >> I don't respond at all or just GRUNT in reply ... I may even take >> action without letting you know... >> 5. While working on the above task, I will work on the >> MetacelloBrowser adding menu items for the operations that I >> performso it will then be easier for other folks to perform the >> same types of jobs in the future. I may do something funky like >> hide the menu items behind a boolean so as not to pollute the >> menu items with a whole bunch of advanced type operations (that >> will be named poorly:)... >> >> I realize that I may be closing the barn door after the horse is gone - >> build 57 is yellow afterall - but cleaning up validation issues is long >> overdue. >> >> I don't plan on fixing Metacello bugs unless I find something that just >> begs to be fixed ... the sprint is mainly about running the validator and >> cleaning up the real nasty bits and track down the Metacello anomalies in >> #57... >> >> Dale >> >> >
