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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 13:02, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
> (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?

I think it's worth making explicit that the resources spent by SLs on
supporting a specific version are likely to come from deployments,
even if this activity happens inside SLs. This implies that
deployments will have a critical voice in what is considered supported
or not.

Regards,

Tomeu

> --Mel
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