Hi guys I had this draft in my drafts for some weeks now and I would like to share that with you. I'm really convinced that we could do a better job to build better tools and process to bring our software to the next level. I would like to have share with you some thoughts and analysis and also request for ideas and code of course :) - Bug tracking we are doing that but can we dream - would be nice to have the stack/image and that we could get back in the bug - scripting code.google.com would be nice too - to publish code - to manipulate script bug entries (any taker of that) - Integration server: we are getting there and I thank all the hudson experimentations. - we should get more of that. - Package Management: Metacello - I would like to have Pharo1.0 certified metacello configs. the ideas is that people can publish in a repositories the configs that they know are working for 1.0, then in another for 1.1.... -> once we have configurations + integration server we should burn servers running and testing -> what/how do we manage results - I would like to manage pharo (core + maintained packages with metacello) as well as pharo-dev - Profiling We got MessageTally (BTW in Squeak 3.xx all the code was in... SystemDictionary) cleaned Now it would be good to have better way to profile applications something like .... :) http://www.bootchart.org/images/bootchart.png - Documentation I hope to get some students to produce a way to script UMLish class diagrams that could be displayed at the level of a package. Package level doc Package class comments overview browser. I think that this is really important to get nice comments, nice instance variables, nice temporary variables. Now we should find a way to make sure that comments are well in sight. Any idea / code? - SmallLint Better UI and process using SmallLint Would be nice to have a sanity package checking process. Will probably come one of these days - Better Unit Test support We should look at Adrian fixes and enhancements Better reporting of tests - Better merging tools Seeing the impact of a delta between two versions on the image for example on that topic From VW mailing-list "1. Please make the engine highly configurable and disjoint from the UI. 2. Please make the UI itself pluggable, extensible, augmentable, etc. 3. To support automated merges, please allow rules for handling unresolved conflicts." I'm sure that there is more. We should get to the next level ;)