On 20 May 2017, at 14:13, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com> wrote:

I agree with you. 

This is why I worked on the auto categoriser. then I improve the categorizer inside the image. 

Now I have a tool to analyse the categories but no time and I did not want to break everything 

but we could push some rules. 

if people would have published slices on such issues I'm quite sure that we would have integrated them, now the question 

is that it takes time and we were focused on other urgent tasks.

Stef

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 12:25 AM, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:

Hi,

One year later we are close to a final release for Pharo 6 and either with Pharo 6 or upcoming Pharo 7
I would really like to see some checks that ensure a quality image and tests who keep us all more
disciplined in the future.

Because:

  1. We should not have undocumented classes:

        (Object allSubclasses select: [:cls| cls hasComment not ])

     but we have a lot in Pharo 6 now since we introduced new packages in this release iteration

  2. We should not have class instance variables in uppercase but:

     (Object allSubclasses select: [:cls| cls isMeta]) select: [:cls| cls
       instVarNames anySatisfy: [:n | n first isUppercase]]

     is not empty - although this was already discussed back in 2008 (!), see
     http://lists.pharo.org/pipermail/pharo-dev_lists.pharo.org/2008-November/003366.html

  3. We should not have uncategorized methods but:

     (Object allSubclasses select: [:cls| (cls selectorsInProtocol: Protocol unclassified) notEmpty ])

     we still have them.

  4. I've seen methods with unused temporary variables. Dont know about unused ivars or other.

  5. add you own here ...

I know this is often boring to comment or categorize - but we should do our homework as we wanted to
better compared to the past. Also if the base image is not following rules how should we expect others
to provide quality packages on top of it?

IMHO we should raise the bar. Either in Pharo 6 or in early Pharo 7. We can fix these once and for
all AND assure with unit tests that we keep the standard image on this quality level.

Thx
T.