Actually, SS3 and smalltalkhub appeared about the
same time. Tobias Pape had been slowly improving the GemStone
version of SqueakSource3 and I got tired of waiting 2-3 days for
SqueakSource to come back from a crash, so I pushed SS3 up as an
Alpha to get something up that was more stable than
SqueakSource. About the same time, SmalltalkHub was made
available and I didn't want to compete with SmalltalkHub and at
the time it seemed to have potential, so I backed off on my
plans to go beyond the Alpha release of SS3. There were several
sets of known bugs and performance issues ... but it was and
still is Alpha and was never intended to go into production.
After several months of development, SmalltalkHub had not
quite made it to be production ready and Stef asked me to
start backing up SS3 so that it could be used for production
apps ... I reluctantly agreed, because at the time
SqueakSource was very unstable and something was needed ...��
Unfortunately the time window for me to have time to devote
time to SS3 had passed and Tobias was busy with his work as
well.��
And it took longer than originally anticipated for
SmalltalkHub to be ready for prime time.
Tobias has continued to work on the SqueakSource3 code base
and bring it way beyond the Alpha version that is in
production. The folks at Hasso Plattner ��Institute are using
Tobias' SqueakSource3 in production for their Smalltalk
repos.��
But it seemed to not be worth the effort to try to compete
with SmalltalkHub ... the original intent of SS3 being brought
into production was to be a stopgap measure until SmalltalkHub
was ready...
Today, I am using GitHub for all of my projects ([1], [2],
[3], and [4]) so again I just don't have the time to devote to
SS3 to incorporate the improvements that Tobias has had (for
years now) ....��
Neither SqueakSource3 nor SmalltalkHub comes close to the
collaborative feature set of GitHub and I personally would
rather devote my own time and effort to new Smalltalk projects
than trying to duplicate GitHub in Smalltalk.
We continue to host SS3, with all of its Alpha warts
because is very stable and a number of folks use it on a daily
basis...��
Dale��