[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

[Chihurumnaya Ibiam]

Hey James, since you're still maintaining fedora18, "sudo yum vlc" - any
activity- returns this error "Error cannot retrieve metalink for repository
fedora18/i386" , editing the *fedora.repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and
changing
all "https" to "http" solves the problem.

*Ibiam Chihurumnaya*

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 1:58 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Composite reply to several posts, in context, see below;
>
> Samson wrote:
> > I think we should really join the trend so that we can get more
> > people using Sugar for Learning.  So what are your thought on this
> > development?
>
> I don't think it will work, as we don't have developers interested in
> it.  If you're interested in it and are happy to commit fully without
> relying on others, go for it.  But don't expect other resources to get
> involved; as the argument from numbers is not compelling enough.
>
> There are more learning tools available for Windows.
>
> But the numbers are not the only reason why our customers choose
> Linux.
>
> Sebastian wrote:
> > Sugar barely runs [...]
>
> Yes, you're right.
>
> > committed releasing Sugar every six months [...] we have no release
> > schedule.
>
> Yes, you're right.
>
> A new release of Sugar with the bug fixes since 0.110 would help solve
> the "barely runs" problem.
>
> (also a release of the critical activities, not just the core;
> newcomers to our community should note the term Sucrose has been in
> our Taxonomy for many years, see the Wiki if you don't know what it
> means.)
>
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Glossary
>
> > I don't see Sugar Labs organization as capable of strategically
> > funding Sugar development in any direction. Of course, volunteers
> > can work in whatever they like, if it fits their principles.
>
> I agree, and that's the basis of my engagement; subject to also
> stabilising Sugar for OLPC OS on Fedora 18 and Ubuntu 16.04 for
> delivery to OLPC customers; as a custom system with all obvious (to
> me) bugs fixed.
>
> Sugar Labs is heavily benefiting from my work for OLPC, and OLPC is
> benefiting from other volunteers at Sugar Labs.
>
> Dave wrote:
> > codebase could be returned to OLPC
>
> No thanks.  Where would the Sugar Labs volunteers go who are focused
> on this codebase?
>
> OLPC already maintains a fork with the fixes, and the changes that
> Sugar Labs has not accepted.  All fixes have been pushed back to Sugar
> Labs, but there has been no release, hence the exceedingly low quality
> of the Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu experience at the moment.
>
> OLPC fork version numbers are like 0.110.0.olpc.12
>
> > Sugar Labs could focus on the JS Sugarizer codebase.
>
> Sugarizer isn't integrated into Sugar Labs; the repositories are
> split, cooperation is minimal, and the code for activities isn't
> portable to execution environments other than Sugarizer; such as
> sugar-web-activity.
>
> So I'm certainly not inclined to support any activity development on
> Sugarizer; because that development won't pay back for OLPC.
>
> I'm probably going to have to port the Moon activity from GTK+ 2 to
> GTK+ 3 unless someone can make the JavaScript version work on desktop.
> ;-)  I did get half way through.
>
> Zeeshan Khan also has the task for GsoC, so we might do it together.
>
> I'd like to hear from Ignacio, Sam Parkinson and Abhijit what they
> think of the port of Moon vs the JavaScript port; it may be simpler to
> port the JavaScript version back to Sugar.
>
> Samuel Cantero wrote:
> > We should work to find out a new release manager [...]
>
> Ignacio is the release manager at the moment, but my guess is that
> he'd welcome someone else taking the job.  Hopefully he'll speak up.
>
> Dave wrote:
> > Do those xo run the latest release?
>
> For mass deployment in Paraguay, they can run Sugar 0.110 plus all bug
> fixes from OLPC by using our 13.2.8 as-is or by using it as basis of
> custom build.
>
> For individuals in Paraguay, they might run "yum update" to get Sugar
> 0.110 plus fixes, unless there's some problem with clock, proxy, or
> yum.repos.d induced by environment of my bugs.
>
> Samuel Cantero wrote:
> > we're going to try to build a new ASLO in GSoC which must ease
> > activities management, for both image builders and developers.
>
> Please also consider Sugar Network, which Sebastian knows about, and
> is used heavily, judging by the hit counts on the Sugar Labs servers.
> Laura recently asked asking Sugar Labs for assistance with Sugar
> Network and bringing a new deployment onto it may be helpful.
>
> German wrote:
> > At Dominican Republic, ~750 XO are running latest version of Sugar.
>
> Good to get such positive feedback!  ;-)
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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