Brainstorming on the roadmap for first Pharo Consortium Engineer :)

Hi guys

we have a roadmap for Esteban and we would like to share it with you. We have extra items that we would like to see fixed and we are welcoming your
feedback/suggestions. Note this is typically the way we want to work with the consortium in the future:
        Build an initial roadmap and refine it based on the input of the community.

- A website for the consortium registration (esteban is expert on that).
        - This is important for INRIA and for the visibility of the consortium. We should get new members :)
        - Integration with SmalltalkHub

- Working on fixing bugs!
        - Debugger fixes
        - Continuous bug fixing.

- Improving release process: faster, more people involved, simpler.
        - Working on metacello repositories for each distributions (everything is there but missing last bits)
        - Metacello tools
        - Automatic release validations
        - Automatic validation of fixes

Now the free items with probably igor involvement
        - Multiwindowing support
        - Fully working multithreaded FFI with ***Documentation***
        - Filesystem fix and integration
        - Integration of OPAL
        - RPackage integration

Igor related
        - Ephemerons
        - Object format
        - VM branding
        - Use of new canvas
        - Event cleaning

So we are waiting for your suggestions.
       

Stef

We have a very exciting future!

Stéphane Ducasse wrote

Multiwindowing support

Meaning native windows?

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On Oct 31, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:

At least having multiple ones but not native because with MS, Apple, linux look and feel we will all die before we get something working :)

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Stéphane Ducasse wrote

At least having multiple ones but not native because with MS, Apple, linux look and feel we will all die before we get something working :)

Ah, I didn't realize the nuance! Multiple windows are what I've wanted all along, and I've been calling them "native" (which could be useful, but not nearly as important to me).

Sean

Yes this is a long overdue. We will start another pass on it with nick in a week. So we will see: we want to have all the compilation chain to work in an environment.



Stef