[IAEP] Project hosting

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Tue, 27 May 2008, David Farning wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 15:32 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote:
>> Why the seemingly purposeless duplication of infrastructure which 
>> outsiders are almost sure to find confusing? While OLPC's development 
>> lists (in particular sugar@) serve their purpose, no new lists are 
>> needed. While OLPC is providing adequate code hosting infrastructure, 
>> no new hosting infrastructure is needed, and so on. Let's please start 
>> offering sugarlabs.org code hosting when OLPC rejects a project and 
>> not before that. Until then, mirroring will suffice.
>> 
> Without clear purposes and responsibilities, _both_ projects suffer. 
> From reading the archives of this mailing list and the wiki, I had come 
> to the conclusion that the purpose of Sugar Labs was to develop a 
> software stack that could be passed on to others for customization and 
> distribution.
>
> On the other hand, OLPC is going to receive the Sugar stack from Sugar
> Labs and customize it for their machines.  OPLC will be able focus on
> developing new laptops and deploying them.

The critical question: does the OLPC organization agree with this 
assessment?

Who is upstream for Sugar?

--g