- Advise, I repeat: advise, the 3.9a team. They're entirely free to
completely ignore the outcome of this stuff, although if many many many people vote for something and they don't do it, it'd be nice if they'd give a reason;
A few people play leaders and they feel free to completely ignore the complete community. You described exactly the sad state of Squeak today.
I know that lot of people are reading this mailing-list and I do not want that you succeed in your systematic approach to demolish what we are doing. Because we are making progress, even you can systematically deny it.
We are paying a lot of attention to the community: We are communicating with the teams - web team, Morphic teams, File team... We will do an announce to know if other team (graphics...) have new changes for 3.9. We are taking care that lot of speed fixes and tools enh get harvested. We are talking care to let the people vote and participate in the foundation.
Now you can be negative this is your right and kick our asses (I'm much more exigent than you on the weaknesses of what we are doing) and even if Andreas is often harsh, he acts as a good sting to kick us. I appreciate his comments.
Our goal is still to make Squeak an environment where people can invent their or our future in education software (have a look http://documentation.ofset.org/ drgeo/videos/drgeo2-center.mpeg), webdev, and any developments. We are always cautious that changes is difficult and may break other code.
Come on martin stop to be frustrated and participate (review fixes, join a team, have fun life is too short to get frustrated all the time). At one point people will start to put your address in their spam filter and you will have lost and us too, since if you comment would be constructiv and you would participate we would have all gain something at the end of the day. But again this is your choice.
Stef