<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Jonas,</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 2:06 PM Jonas Smedegaard <<a href="mailto:jonas@jones.dk" target="_blank">jonas@jones.dk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Phil,<br>
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Quoting Phil Bellalouna (2021-08-17 05:10:24)<br>
> * Package name : opensmalltalk-vm<br>
> Version : 1.0<br>
> Upstream Author : <a href="http://squeak.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">squeak.org</a><br>
> * URL : <a href="https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm</a><br>
> * License : MIT<br>
> Programming Lang: Smalltalk, C<br>
> Description : High performance virtual machine for Smalltalk<br>
> <br>
> (this is part of the Squeak project <a href="https://squeak.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://squeak.org</a>)<br>
> <br>[...]<br><br>
First of all, sorry for the late reply!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No worries. Your timing is actually just about perfect as we have some things nearly ready to go and some administrative decisions will need to be made.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I am quite happy to help maintain opensmalltalk-vm. I have tried <br>
several times wrap my head around it but failed so far, so I am very <br>
pleased that you are reaching out and want to do this collaboratively.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's great to hear. There's nothing terribly complicated about it, but some of the approach and conventions adopted predate modern open source by a couple of decades. So it can tend to look a bit alien if you're not used to it. Hopefully I can fill in any gaps and generally help you make sense of it.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I suggest that we use the Sugar team as platform for this package - just <br>
because it exists already, has very low activity, and is somewhat <br>
related (although if I understand correctly opensmalltalk-vm is not <br>
usable with EToys which is the only Smalltalk piece in Sugar.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That works for me. That is correct, opensmalltalk-vm will not (directly) support EToys or Scratch which is part of why we also want to keep (and still maintain upstream) the squeak-vm package. One of the things I've been working on is for multiple VMs to co-exist side-by-side to enable simultaneously running old and new images which we can discuss in more detail as we get into it.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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If that's ok with you (and if you are still around and interested, after <br>
this much silence on my part) then please create an account at Salsa and <br>
request membership in the Sugar team - as that's how you can have write <br>
access to our git repos there. More info on that at <br>
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Sugar#Development" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/Sugar#Development</a> and more generally at <br>
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've registered at Salsa but am getting a message: 'You have signed up successfully. However, we could not sign you in
because your account is awaiting approval from your GitLab
administrator.' So I guess I'm waiting for someone to review and approve the registration?</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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You might also want to register at the Sugar mailinglist, to receive the <br>
emails related to the packaging work.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm still subscribed the pkg-sugar-dev mailing list so assuming that's the list you mean, we should be good to go there.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Kind regards,<br>
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- Jonas<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks and looking forward to discussing further,</div><div>Phil</div></div></div>