[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

[Sebastian Silva]

I for one would love to learn a new way to hack on my sugar and easily share
patches.
If we can do better than jhbuild does (user experience wise), I would love
it!

Icarito

2009/12/14 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 17:01, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 04:19:51PM -0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:25, Benjamin M. Schwartz
> >> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >> > Aleksey Lim wrote:
> >> >> So, I have
> >> >> strong intension to switching development focus from core team,
> >> >> which develops sucrose - glucose(core) and fructose(some core
> >> >> activities) to wide range of developers/doers thus some kind of
> >> >> decentralization of development process.
> >> >
> >> > I agree. I think this has been a central part of the Sugar design
> >> > philosophy from the beginning.  I think your message is very much on
> the
> >> > right track.
> >>
> >> While I think this is in the spirit of my vision for Sugar, my
> >> experience with how Sugar is being used and deployed _today_ makes it
> >> quite uninteresting and too invasive to consider for the near future.
> >>
> >> The current barriers for people to contribute to Sugar development and
> >> share their work are mostly cultural. We can make the technology a
> >> thousand times easier to modify, but if people still think that they
> >> can be only users, we won't gain anything.
> >>
> >> If we really want more people to realize their power and modify sugar
> >> and share their work, we need to, in order:
> >>
> >> - show how the community can address some of their needs, as perceived
> by them,
> >>
> >> - show how they can better address the rest of their needs by working
> >> within the community.
> >>
> >> The rest is just icing on the top, IMHO.
> >
> > well, thats all true but it doesn't exclude easy to change and easy to
> > share possibility of doer's changes e.g. if I want to hack Journal by
> > adding wallpaper support(and of course want to expose my changes) the
> > worst way that could be is proposing my changes to core team(e.g. think
> > about proposing your patches to kernel.org team - maybe exaggerating but
> > the same level issue). Having ready to use sugarized 0install
> > environment gives developers easy sharing method.
>
> As I said, I agree with your points of view and also agree something
> should be done in the path you show. But I also think that presently,
> what would bring more users and deployers on board, is by caring of
> their more immediate needs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
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