[IAEP] the SoaS term (was: Press release flurry planning...)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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[cross-posting to match posting-style of what I respond to]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:45:45PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote:
>can we please try and use the term SoaS slighlty more agnostically. 
>Right now, every time its mentioned it always uses the Fedora backend 
>without question or debate. I think of it a little like when someone 
>says write me an office letter (and its quitely assumed by everyonen 
>that they will be using Microsoft word for this) I spoke briefly to 
>Sebastian about this and we suggestd, quite entertainingly:
>
>FedSoaS or SoaSora
>SuSoaS or SoaSuse
>GenSoaS or SoaS(t)oo
>DebSoaS or SoaSian
>ManSoaS or SoaSiva
>CaSoaS or SoaSica
>
>For me, I kind of like the last column....
>
>Anyway, the point is not to tie SoaS to one distro... there are enough
>people willing to help for the different distros , and the more
>markets the better right?

I completely disagree.

To me, SoaS is a specific distribution coined by Sugar enthusiasts (who 
happen to also most/all of them also to be Sugar developers).

This particular distribution is derived from Fedora.  It might be that 
in the future they decide to switch to Ubuntu or OpenSuSe as platform 
for their development.

It might also be that other distributions emerge based on other major 
distributions.

Whatever happens, let each distribution choose their own name.  Or 
discuss with them to change name - I really don't care.

What concerns me is that Sugarlabs do not dictate naming of external 
projects.

...and now comes the fun part: Do Sugarlabs feel that SoaS is not 
"external"?

I recomend to tream SoaS as a distribution, and I recommend Sugarlabs to 
leave the "distribution" task to others.  Be friendly to any 
distribution that includes Sugar - sure - but don't take on that 
challenge yourself.  There is plenty to do that is more Sugar-specific 
than dealing with boot loaders, kernels and (oh my) security bugs 
throughout thousands(!) of tiny little parts of what is contained in a 
fullblown distribution.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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