[IAEP] Who determines what version of Sugar is used in the field?

[Mel Chua]

(from the last SLOBs agenda-kickin', 
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-July/011343.html)

Question from Kevin Mark: Who should be the deciding organization for 
who determines what version of sugar is used in the field?

"I was confused about the hierarchy of who should be the deciding 
organization for who determines what version of sugar is used in the 
field. There are more than 500,000 users and many people outside of OLPC 
and Sugar Labs that will have to support that choice (of using 0.88) as 
well as the support that OLPC and Sugar Labs in Boston and elsewhere 
will have to provide. I dont know how a new 3rd party like Activity 
Central is involved in this and what role they should be taking as they 
are untested and lacking the kind of resouces that OLPC and Sugar Labs 
have at the moment."

Mel's response: To me, this is very clear - SL decides what version(s) 
of Sugar it will support, and deployments will decide what version(s) of 
Sugar they will use. Deployments don't have to use the supported version 
of Sugar, they just won't get support from SL if they do. :) And others 
(deployments or third-party entities) may step up to offer support for 
versions SL itself does not support.

Your thoughts?

--Mel