Hi, I can confirm that this page looks really strange: http://spec.st/docs/own-model/
At the end, only the word "bindings" appears, the rest is security ink... Also, all the lines are separated by a darker shade of gray and the script, if it was visible, would appear as a collection of lines rather than a single text. Alain On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Johan Fabry <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are passionate people with strong opinions. We have to be, otherwise we > would not be spending our time on this language which is not ‘normal’. > Sometimes this causes disagreements. Sometimes these disagreements cannot > be resolved. When the latter happens, this is a sad thing. > > I am not interested in judging, determining who was ‘right’ and who was > ‘wrong’. From his/her point of view everybody is ‘right’ (at least to a > high degree). I just want to do what, for me, is the best for the overall > project. I may be ‘wrong’, but I do not know any better. I’m just another > guy, you know? > > All of the above being said, for me, the best action is to give my little > bit of support to the version of Spec that is in the Pharo distribution > because I think that this is the best for the project. I would like to keep > working on the documentation and improving it. Specifically I mean the > version that Stef linked to below as it corresponds to what’s in Pharo. I > have had some ideas about missing content as well. So when stuff calms > down, let’s sync and work on further improving the documentation. > > On Sep 10, 2014, at 3:45 PM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello andy > > I'm sorry about this story. The pharo board (Tudor Girba, Sven van > Cackenberghe, Esteban Lorenzano, Marcus Denker and me) > will react officially this is problem. I'm in the board but I do not > want that people think that I'm trying any action that would > be about personal nature, especially since I personally supported a > lot Benjamin during all these years - and I do not understand > his sudden action. Now since this is out of my reach, I prefer to > focus on making Pharo better and I'm working on that actively :) > > I decided as one of Pharo founder to follow the board and let them > handle this situation. I decided that I will not influence nor act > because I prefer to be in positive mindset and push Pharo further. > The board told me that they will clarify the situation, especially > since there are actions that were not correct. > I'm waiting as you for an official statement from the board, and I > know that it will come and be really clear. > As you can imagine the board wants to do it right and settle it as an > example for any future frameworks or part (Zinc, Glamour, Athens, TxText, > ...) > that (will) compose Pharo. > We are setting an industrial consortium to push Pharo for real (As you > can see in the reporthttp://consortium.pharo.org/web?_s=DiSVVVKk3sFm2ouZ > Inria put 300 K euros not counting the salary of the permanent members > of our team) and rules should be clear and followed. > > Now the GPL license does not apply to the version of Spec that is > available in the Pharo distribution since it is MIT from the beginning > and it will stay forever as it. We did not fork it. We are actively > improving Spec. Some clean ups got already integrated and others are > pending. > We will maintain and improve the Spec documentation too. For example > we will probably add the part > written by Stefan Eggermont that was submitted but never integrated. > I'm waiting just to avoid adding to the confusion. > > You can find a version of the Spec documentation as part of the next > book: > > https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoForTheEnterprise/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/Spec/Spec.pier.pdf > It may be not fully in par with the github repo but we will sync with > Johan Fabry too in the future. > > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > >
