[SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Rodolfo and all...
Long ago, in a very early version of SoaS, I seem to recall that Tam Tam was included. However, it did not work well as each operating system had its own way of making sounds on ttam he computer. I remember it being very poor quality on the Mac.  If they could overcome this problem, it would be wonderful to include Tam Tam. I hope that will someday be possible.
Caryl 


> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:33:56 +0000
> From: pbrobinson at gmail.com
> To: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org
> CC: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9
> 
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Rodolfo D. Arce S. <rolf at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> > I realize that this is not merely a whishlist, but I would like to see
> > added to the SoaS all other packages that are also present in the OLPC
> > 12.1 build. I noticed just recently (because i haven't been using my
> > XO for a while) that the standard OLPC build has the gnome (and
> > desktop switcher) and several applications for it installed allong
> > with the Sugar envirment.
> 
> I'm working as I get the time, along with Kalpa, to get the Sugar
> Activities to the same list as OLPC ships. The biggest missing ones at
> the moment is the Tam Tam suite.
> 
> We're not going to ever ship the gnome desktop as part of the SoaS
> spin, but there's nothing to stop people installing it side by side
> with SoaS if you install it to hard disk.
> 
> > It basically adds more packages, and I understand that it makes it
> > harder to maintain, but it seems to me that it would be good to have
> > the same enviroment for the SoaS as for the OLPC "desktop".
> 
> From the sugar side of things we are basically the same. The distro is
> based on the same package set and being derived from Fedora there's
> nothing to stop you from installing gnome if it's what you want to do,
> we don't have the resources to provide the support for it out of the
> box.
> 
> > This was probably discussed before, but i would think that providing
> > the same enviroment could help spread Sugar to a regular more wider
> > audience of i686 (or x86_64) bit desktop or notebook/netbook owners.
> 
> From the sugar side of things we are basically providing the same
> environment. There's a few minor differences but not much. If there's
> a particular sugar feature you feel is missing please let me know.
> GNOME is not a missing feature... it's intended.
> 
> Peter
> 
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > 2013/3/22 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>:
> >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying to get a little bit more organised for this cycle than I
> >>> have been over the last couple.
> >>>
> >>> The plans for SoaS v9 are going to be somewhat simple. We're going to
> >>> stick with the 0.98.x release of Sugar and focusing on polish.
> >>>
> >>> I would like to see more people testing and using it during the dev
> >>> cycle so I don't get the "My Activity is broken" post release or five
> >>> minutes before release when we're generating final images and pushing
> >>> them out to the Fedora mirrors.
> >>>
> >>> I would also like to remove sugar-presence-service but that would mean
> >>> either dropping eToys or the developers stepping up to actually fix
> >>> the dependency that they've only been promising to do for 2 or so
> >>> years.
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything in particular that people would like to contribute
> >>> during this cycle? Anything I can help someone achieve? Does anyone
> >>> want to dig into the documentation on the web site to improve the
> >>> process?
> >>>
> >>> I'd also love marketing to get involved since we've not had any
> >>> publicity for a number of releases and after all Walter was telling me
> >>> some time back that it's the biggest single driver in the wiki.
> >>>
> >>> Finally there's a Test Compose for the alpha available in the
> >>> following link. I've used it briefly in a VM and it boots and seems to
> >>> mostly work.
> >>>
> >>> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC1/Live/
> >>
> >> I forget to mention for this cycle we'll also produce SoaS images to
> >> run on a number of ARM platforms. The first test of these should
> >> arrive around F-19 Beta.
> >>
> >> Peter
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