If my understanding of Pharo's release management is correct, then no new features are added after a release, only bugfixes.

So from this perspective I would suggest to publish it to Pharo50Inbox instead, including creating a new issue in Pharo bugtracker where you describe what is it changing.

If you need in Pharo 4 it may be preferable to create a new repository for it (at smalltalkhub) and pushing it's configuration to http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo40, so people can install it manually via Configuration Browser without affecting Pharo 4 release.

Peter

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
By "publish a slice" do you also mean to ask it to be integrated into Pharo4?

The general issue is that every new fix for the released Pharo40 has
the *chance* of introducing some other problem, or adversely affecting
someone else's idea of how the system should operate.�� Even with
minimal quaility assurance for a release it takes effort to integrate
fixes, so each needs to be evaluated for impact. So the options for
Pharo 4 are:
1. Continually integrate fixes as they arise ==> ++effort
2. Continually integrate critical fixes only, hold all others for the
next point release.
3. Hold all fixes for next point release.

I don't see this as a critical fix :), so you'd be asking for (1.),
when probably (2.) should be the rule.

Now I had the idea that fixes for a release that were not immediately
integrated might be published as a "hotfix" - taking Microsoft's
terminology for an update fixing a specific issue without having gone
through full quality control with all other fixes, so kind of "use at
own risk".�� I'm not sure if that was popular or the best way to go
about it.�� Possibly just adding "hotfix" in the mcz file name would
provide enough to find them by filtering.

cheers -ben

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> I've hacked together an implementation of format on accept & display.
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> I know someone is redoing that functionality to better suit future needs.
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> Should I publish what I've got as a slice to the Pharo40Inbox for people to use that may miss it now that do not want to wait for the new hotness?
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> Thanks
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> Paul