Hello! The other day Torsten mention in discord that before was easier to follow what was going on due the reports we were publishing, and I think he is right. This reports stopped to being produced when the pandemic arise and lock-down was the norm... our organisation of work suffered and the reports were an undesirable victim :) I intend to resume the publication of weekly status reports, with a difference: focusing on immediate changes is not productive anymore because we have the excelent report of Marcus for that (which follows the integrations in Pharo development branch). So, I will talk about immediate and medium-term goals, and steps we are doing following them. This is the first, let's see if this helps people to follow :) Short-term goals: - Improve integration infrastructure for Spec2 and NewTools frameworks. - Improve quality and quantity of tests in Spec2 and NewTools frameworks. - Improve quality of class comments in Spec2 framework. - Since we are in freeze mode: fixing important bugs on Pharo9 and its components (this issue will stay here until release). Medium-term goals: - Removal of GTTools - M1 VM release - Release 9.0 # Last week work ## Last week: - moved newtools and spec infrastructure to github actions (travis was being slow) - fixed several bugs on SpGridLayout, SpDropListPresenter,SpTreePresenter and SpTreeTablePresenter - fixed wrong enable/disable dynamic and style of buttons (also in toolbars). - added some inspector extensions to improve visibility of Morph data - added a lot of tests to new Playground, SpCodePresenter, SpTreePresenter and SpTreeTablePresenter. - Pablo and Guille were working hard on improving the VM profiling infrastructure. - making the ARM simulator work - Working in the parallel execution of tests - Improving the stability of Socket primitives - Fixing problems in the Large Images support - Extending DrTest to delegate the UI construction to the plugins - Stef ported MethodWrappers to Pharo 9 (which allow a lot of profiling and "object centric" stuff. - Finally, Marcus was busy processing PRs and discussing future steps (in part with me ;) ) ## This week (as always, this is just pointing in a direction, what later comes in depends on the work load, problems, and "unknowns") - finish new infrastructure to improve integration speed of Spec2 and NewTools - add tests to new Inspector - more freezing actions (bugfixing, PR processing) cheers! Esteban