On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 11:35:14PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:

The first paragraph says, "Welcome to SqueakSource", why should the second paragraph recommend users to go elsewhere?

I miss the clean, welcoming, original look of SqueakSource. Does anyone remember why those confusing messages were put there in the first place?

At one time, there was an announced plan to shut down the service. The warning messages were added at that time. I'm happy either way, although I do think that some kind of message encouraging folks to consider other services is still appropriate. After all, we are not trying to attract a lot of new users to squeaksource.com, the emphasis is on maintaining the reliability and availibility of the existing service.

PS -- we should ask Pharo if they prefer to have "and Pharo" removed too so it doesn't create confusion for their users if have moved on from Squeaksource.

The squeaksource.com service is quite actively used by the Pharo community. Maybe we get get some input from the Pharo perspective (this message is cross posted to both lists). From my point of view, it seems good to say "for Squeak and Pharo" here. Dave

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 5:54 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis@mail.msen.com> wrote:

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The squeaksource.com home page presents a warning that out of date. I would like to update that message with something more appropriate. The home page currently says this:

Note: The creation of new projects has been disabled. If you would like to create a new project please consider moving to: http://ss3.gemstone.com/ or http://www.smalltalkhub.com/.

And it might be better to say something like this:

Note: If you would like to create a new project please consider using http://ss3.gemstone.com/.

Rationale: New project creation is no longer disabled on squeaksource.com. The smalltalkhub.com site is still beta so I am not sure that it should be recommended. The ss3.gemstone.com seems to be solid and well supported.

Does that sound right? Advice is welcome.

Thanks, Dave

On 06.08.2015, at 08:10, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:

On 04/08/15 14:41, David T. Lewis wrote:

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The squeaksource.com service is quite actively used by the Pharo community. Maybe we get get some input from the Pharo perspective (this message is cross posted to both lists). From my point of view, it seems good to say "for Squeak and Pharo" here.

The welcome message should help people find existing projects and decide where to host new ones. To help find existing ones it might be helpful to explain that some migrated to smalltalkhub and ss3, and that that might not be obvious from looking at the squeaksource page.

I'm happy to see both Pharo and Squeak mentioned.

The beta tag on smalltalkhub doesn't make much sense. It is heavily used in production with a few hundred CI jobs, lots of which are critical to the development of Pharo itself. This week there were 15 new projects and 12 users added. And yes, is also missing functionality that is unlikely to be added

Well, it is still on my list… but you know… lists…

and the web ui has serious issues.

Stephan