Yes, indeed very very good news! Congrats Igor, of course, but a big thanks to INRIA for invest in Smalltalk! 2010/12/11 Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com>:
He, I was about to say "congratulations to Igor", but I better say "congratulations to all us, the pharoers, for having Igor as a full time engineer"
Cheers, Esteban
El 11/12/2010, a las 8:31a.m., Oscar Nierstrasz escribió:
+1 !!!
On 11 Dec 2010, at 10:46, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
Hi all
We have a really good news for pharo. Igor got a job as engineer in our team for two years. We are really thankful to INRIA for that. Since we want to be transparent here is the way we plan to work. We asked igor to help fixing bug fixes for about 20% of his time. And to focus on larger items. Here is a list based on the brainstorming we did and what we told INRIA igor would do. Now if you want to help and join effort with us this is even better.
Now igor started to work on OPAL because we would like to have it for a beta in january, when we will get a new unstable stream.
Stef
-- Set nil -- Hashed Collection    --  dictionary are slower    --  Generalize stream protocol #readInto:startingAt:count:
-- WeakStructure -- Finalizer -- Chapter on Finalizer
-- Better integration process
-- EventSensor    polling    - publish a windows VM that support it
-- ClassBuilder rewrite
-- Helping improving the VM Â Â Â - cleaner code
-- Cleaning events/annoucement    check CUIS    on:send:    changed:/update
-- SystemChangeNotification -> announcement    sync with Cyrille    review with Cyrille
-- Using RPackage in Monticello    sync with cyrille
-- iSqueak New event hierarchy    Alain imported that    Multitouch?
-- New compiler    -- debug    -- Decompiler IR -> AST    -- Cleanups    -- API    -- Environment
-- ROME API Â Â Â - API stablisation: openVG Â Â Â - system rewrite to use API
-- Ephemerons ??
-- Announcement with weak structure
-- Networks    - may be use WeakFinalizer here.    - looking at Andreas fixes in Squeak