Imagine IBM paying engineers to maintain an smalltalk application during like 10 years, and I still find some really ugly bugs hehe

On 23 August 2011 14:12, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
Don't feel guilty :)
But send fixes so that we can collect them for a given version.

And we will not get perfect systems. Imagine IBM payed during several year 100 engineers to build eclipse
and so far we got one engineer 8 months.

Stef


On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Lukas Renggli wrote:

>>> Now I think the subliminal message of this thread is that the Pharo
>>> community should focus on making the existing images really stable
>>> before hacking away on Pharo 1.4 and beyond ... :-)
>>
>> And we need more people actually looking at the bug tracker... I sometimes
>> feel a bit lonely...
>
> Yes, I feel guilty of not being able to contribute more fixes. You are
> doing the excellent job of integrating submitted patches
> instantaneous.
>
> The problem is that the unstable versions are pushed extremely hard,
> while the supposedly stable versions are still unstable. I don't see
> how this can possibly work?
>
> Subsequently, I hesitate to submit a patch for an old version because
> I know it won't be possible to merge it into newer versions. This is a
> vicious circle.
>
> Lukas
>
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