Thanks Esteban. I like your idea of showing the direction.
Noury
On May 19 2021, at 10:59 am, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> The other day Torsten mention in discord that before was easier to follow
> what was going on due the reports we were publishing, and I think he is
> right. This reports stopped to being produced when the pandemic arise and
> lock-down was the norm... our organisation of work suffered and the reports
> were an undesirable victim :)
> I intend to resume the publication of weekly status reports, with a
> difference: focusing on immediate changes is not productive anymore because
> we have the excelent report of Marcus for that (which follows the
> integrations in Pharo development branch).
> So, I will talk about immediate and medium-term goals, and steps we are doing
> following them.
> This is the first, let's see if this helps people to follow :)
> Short-term goals:
> - Improve integration infrastructure for Spec2 and NewTools frameworks.
> - Improve quality and quantity of tests in Spec2 and NewTools frameworks.
> - Improve quality of class comments in Spec2 framework.
> - Since we are in freeze mode: fixing important bugs on Pharo9 and its
> components (this issue will stay here until release).
>
> Medium-term goals:
> - Removal of GTTools
> - M1 VM release
> - Release 9.0
>
> # Last week work
> ## Last week:
> - moved newtools and spec infrastructure to github actions (travis was being
> slow)
> - fixed several bugs on SpGridLayout, SpDropListPresenter,SpTreePresenter and
> SpTreeTablePresenter
> - fixed wrong enable/disable dynamic and style of buttons (also in toolbars).
> - added some inspector extensions to improve visibility of Morph data
> - added a lot of tests to new Playground, SpCodePresenter, SpTreePresenter
> and SpTreeTablePresenter.
> - Pablo and Guille were working hard on improving the VM profiling
> infrastructure.
> - making the ARM simulator work
> - Working in the parallel execution of tests
> - Improving the stability of Socket primitives
> - Fixing problems in the Large Images support
> - Extending DrTest to delegate the UI construction to the plugins
> - Stef ported MethodWrappers to Pharo 9 (which allow a lot of profiling and
> "object centric" stuff.
> - Finally, Marcus was busy processing PRs and discussing future steps (in
> part with me ;) )
>
> ## This week
> (as always, this is just pointing in a direction, what later comes in depends
> on the work load, problems, and "unknowns")
>
> - finish new infrastructure to improve integration speed of Spec2 and NewTools
> - add tests to new Inspector
> - more freezing actions (bugfixing, PR processing)
>
> cheers!
> Esteban
