Meanwhile in FogBugz: issue 20000

> On 27 Apr 2017, at 17:49, Torsten Bergmann <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> our community today hit the 20000 issues mark in FogBugz.
>
>   https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20000
>
> And a good change to once again say THANK YOU, especially to the ones who care most on
>
> - updating the bug tracker
> - fixing issues
> - reviewing issues
> - integrating issues
> - doing also the boring tasks in caring about the bugtracker
> - pushing Pharo in the right direction
>
> Just wow and impressive! Pharo 6 will be another nice milestone in a lively open source
> Smalltalk system that we all wanted to see becoming a reality!  

> Thx
> T.
>
> BTW:
> The issue 20000 is about clickable URLs in Help Browser. Currently we copy them to clipboard - as we do
> not have web browser support in the default image. I guess it is too late to push this package into the
> image due to the freeze.
>
> So this slices nonetheless tries to improve the situation by checking if the unified WebBrowser support package
> (which is available since a year [1]) is loaded or not. If it is loaded it opens a real web browser.
>
> So when Pharo 6 is released and someone may lament about not being able for the URLs to really work
> we can point him to load the "WebBrowser" package and he should be fine.
>
> [1] http://lists.pharo.org/pipermail/pharo-dev_lists.pharo.org/2016-April/120723.html
>

> On Apr 28, 2017, at 12:47 PM, Stephane Ducasse <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Tx torsten for these kind words.
>
> You got quoted :)
> https://pharoweekly.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/20000-issues-mark-in-fogbugz/
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Torsten Bergmann <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> our community today hit the 20000 issues mark in FogBugz.
>
>    https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20000
>
> And a good change to once again say THANK YOU, especially to the ones who care most on
>
>  - updating the bug tracker
>  - fixing issues
>  - reviewing issues
>  - integrating issues
>  - doing also the boring tasks in caring about the bugtracker
>  - pushing Pharo in the right direction
>
> Just wow and impressive! Pharo 6 will be another nice milestone in a lively open source
> Smalltalk system that we all wanted to see becoming a reality!
>
> Thx
> T.
>
> BTW:
> The issue 20000 is about clickable URLs in Help Browser. Currently we copy them to clipboard - as we do
> not have web browser support in the default image. I guess it is too late to push this package into the
> image due to the freeze.
>
> So this slices nonetheless tries to improve the situation by checking if the unified WebBrowser support package
> (which is available since a year [1]) is loaded or not. If it is loaded it opens a real web browser.
>
> So when Pharo 6 is released and someone may lament about not being able for the URLs to really work
> we can point him to load the "WebBrowser" package and he should be fine.
>
> [1] http://lists.pharo.org/pipermail/pharo-dev_lists.pharo.org/2016-April/120723.html
>
>