RE: Handing over responsibility

It's a real shame to see you have to step back, but I understand the time concern.

So, does anyone know where the Squeak port is?  I think getting an existing popular system running on Strongtalk will be the fastest way to gain momentum.

Just my 2 cents.

> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Handing over responsibility
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:12:14 -0700
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As I'm sure many of you have noticed, I have not been able to spend
> any time in quite a while on the system.  That was certainly not my
> intention, but anyway that's the way things have worked out, for which
> I am sorry.   I keep intending to spend more time on it, but I have
> decided to accept reality and get out of the way so that those of you
> who have contributed can self-organize without having to wait for me
> to review and integrate your contributions.
> 
> I don't want to get too personal, but I feel like I should at least
> give some explanation.  Part of the problem is, as for most of you, I
> have other higher priorities that I need to focus on.   But besides
> that, a big issue for me is that I've never gotten over the
> disappointment I felt back when we had to put Strongtalk on the shelf
> and work on the Java VM.  I had hoped that when the system went open
> source I would be able to jump back in and get motivated to work on
> the system again, but for me there has just been too much "water under
> the bridge" for that to happen.  But those are my personal issues.  As
> for Strongtalk, it is still extremely cool technology, which after all
> these years is still better than anything else available, and it
> deserves to survive regardless of the involvement of me or others from
> the original team.
> 
> The bottom line at this point is that I probably won't be able to
> spend any significant time on Strongtalk for the foreseeable future.
> I do hope to contribute more at some point, but I just can't give any
> commitment as to when or how much.
> 
> So what I am doing is handing over responsibility to the other project
> members with committer status.  Being open source, it is up to you all
> to self-organize and figure out how you want to organize things.  I
> would recommend that initially committers keep their changes in
> repository branches until a consensus for reviewing and integrating
> those changes is figured out.
> 
> Despite this bump in the road, some excellent progress has been made.
> Versions of the system have been constructed that now compile and run
> using gcc, and a lot of the work to get the VM running on Linux has
> been done.  Those of you who want to pick up the ball and continue,
> now is the time to step up, and work out between yourselves how you
> want to coordinate things.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> > 

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