[Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] A Roadmap to our first Release

[Sean DALY]

Thanks Sebastian!

Reminder everyone, for FOSSVT we are planning:

* First run of 100 branded Sugar Labs sticks, to be distributed to
qualified prospects (i.e. not everyone as they are expensive)

* Press release to announce Sugar on a Stick beta. In addition to
targeted journalists and educators as we did for the Sugar v0.84
release, we will probably do eReleases/PR Newswire again, but this
time with a photo of Sugar labs branded USB sticks.

Thanks!

Sean


On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> As promised, I've got some news regarding the SoaS roadmap. Here is it:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap#Roadmap
>
> Let me talk about the major points for a second.
>
> (a) We're targeting 2009-04-10 as the release date, as that's the date
> when Caroline and Walter will be showing it off at FOSSVT.
>
> (b) We'll clearly indicate that this is *beta* software. Nevertheless,
> it's a *release*. The final release is scheduled for Q3 2009.
>
> (c) Fedora 11 Beta has been delayed for 7 days, which means that it will
> be generally available on 2009-03-31.
>
> (d) We're going to use F11 beta as the base system. Why? Because it's
> currently frozen and will become more unstable after the beta release,
> when the freeze is lifted. So instead, we'll clone the Rawhide state
> being used for the Beta Release and base SoaS-2 on that.
>
> What does this mean for testers, as well as developers?
>
> (1) I'd like to encourage everybody to give SoaS-2 a shot. Please report
> any issues you encounter, also with regard to hardware support, *now*!
>
> The latest snapshots have been announced here: http://tinyurl.com/cufy75
>
> (2) We'll continue to build and release new snapshots, as Rawhide should
> become more stable now.
>
> (3) After the F11 beta release, testing should focus on providing a good
> Sugar experience. So information which activities (and features) and
> which don't are appreciated!
>
> (4) Activity maintainers for honey should be aware of the fact that
> their activities can only be included if they have been uploaded and
> approved on activities.sugarlabs.org.
>
> (5) Package maintainers for Fedora are asked to update their packages to
> the latest version until 2009-04-05. That's also the latest date for
> getting packages included! Non-working stuff might be removed as of that
> date.
>
> You can keep track of the latest package version here. Please update
> this page accordingly.
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap#Packaging
>
> If you've any general ideas or suggestions, please add them here:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/TODO
>
> Thanks and let's make this a great release! :)
>    --Sebastian
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