[IAEP] [sugar] Fwd: Roadmap update

[Tomeu Vizoso]

[adding iaep to cc]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Riccardo Lucchese
<riccardo.lucchese at gmail.com> wrote:
> (apologises to Marco for sending him two copies as I forgot to cc the
> list on my first try)
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <marcopg at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Marco Pesenti Gritti <marcopg at sugarlabs.org>
>> Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:40 AM
>> Subject: Roadmap update
>> To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> as you might have learned from the various Sugarcamp reports, OLPC is not
>> able to fund Sugar development anymore. The only area of
>> synergy/intersection might be support for standard linux applications. We
>> have to start walking on our own.
> That is `zero olpc contractors working full time on Sugar' ?

That's my understanding from the little public information I have
received, but this should be asked to OLPC officials.

>> As you have probably guessed, this is going to have strong consequences on
>> the roadmap. We will have to punt part of the work and to reasses
>> priorities. We started doing it at Sugarcamp and we will continue on this
>> mailing list and during the Development team weekly meetings. The 0.84
>> release will be unchanged, but the feauture freeze might be adjusted a bit.
>>
>> One of my first priorities will be to do whatever I can to make it easier to
>> new contributors to step in. Walter and David are working hard to get more
>> companies involved. It's a *difficult* time, we will need everyone help to
>> make 0.84 a success.

Totally.

Regards,

Tomeu