Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
>  Andreas Raab a écrit :
>  
> > Leveraging those projects is what Squeak.org today is really, REALLY 
> > terrible at. But it is where the majority of Squeak production code 
> > gets written so if you want to get those fixes and enhancements that 
> > happen in these projects you need to find a ways of integrating them.
>  
>  As forks are concerned, reintegrating fixes in Squeak mainstream should 
>  be a two way process, no?

Indeed, one would hope so. Although, I'm not sure if we agree on what 
"two-way process" means here ;-) To me, it means that those projects 
both contribute as well as benefit. As it stands, it appears that most 
projects don't benefit at all from "mainstream" Squeak. I can't speak 
for other projects (so I won't) but the situation for Croquet is clear: 
There have been plenty of fixes brought back to Squeak.org but there 
have been no improvements brought to Croquet from Squeak.org. So it's 
been a uniquely one-way relationship so far and that is part of why 
there is limited motivation to go through the hoops to get all the other 
fixes into Squeak.org proper.

I had tried to change some of this by doing per-package maintenance (so 
that we and other projects may be able to benefit from changes folded 
into these packages). Unfortunately, that effort got torpedoed every 
step of the way.

Cheers,
   - Andreas