[IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

[Luke Faraone]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

> >Why can't there be something like Holger is suggesting... just a place
> >where Debian and Ubuntu can work alongside each other.
>
> We do work alongside each other, it is the place both Holger an I are
> talking about: The OLPC team hosted at the Debian service Alioth.
>

No argument there.


> At the moment the Ubuntu developers has decided to not make use of the
> shared Git repositories that I am maintaining. They might never use them
> again - time will tell. But it seems to me that we are not very far from
> being able to work closer together again. In a way that satisfies both
> Ubuntu and Debian needs.
>

Ubuntu will sync their changes back to Debian as soon as we can; that is, as
soon as Sugar releases its next stable version. Which brings up a related
question: are "beta" and "Release Candidate"s considered stable enough for
Debian inclusion in your opinion?



> >Debian now contains the most unstable sugar release there is...
>
> This comes as a big surprise to me. Honestly!
>
> Debian has 18 Sugar-related known bugs currently, most of them exotic.
>
> As users, first priority is to file bugreports against the party closest
> to you: If you have time to kill then coordinating bugreports across
> distributions and upstream is appreciated too, but main thing is to make
> your own distributor aware of any issues you experience!


A main problem with *most* of the Sugar activities in Debian/Ubuntu: They
run but don't scale properly to most screens. This is a bug that is hard to
fix downstream, which is why most of them have been fixed or forwarded
upstream.

The second of course is that we don't have many activities: to this we have
two solutions:

* Wait for Debian to get 0.84 and get the autoupdater, which will download
the activities to ~
* Package more activities  :)

-- 
Luke Faraone
http://luke.faraone.cc
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