[sugar] Re: trial1 software page

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:09 +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I went over the trial1 plan with both Eben and Tomeu and I put together
> a TODO list for Sugar on the base of their feedback.
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Trial1_TODO
> 
> There are two big high level decisions that we need to make:
> 
> 1 Use the journal prototype we have developed or a file based model.
> 2 Try to integrate the new presence service Dan and Collabora are
> working on, and base a simple chat on it.

I'm not so sure; we'll know in a few days (definitely by next week)
whether or not we can hit a March 20th target.  The _structure_ hasn't
changed much, so stuff in Sugar like the mesh and friends pages won't
have to change much.  What will have to change is anything that uses the
current sugar.p2p code, but that's only _2_ bits of code: Web and Chat.

Dan

> I think we should aim at a feature freeze on 20 March.
> 
> Given the time frame I think 2 is out of question. We didn't even start
> integrating the new backend with the UI yet.
> 
> I've been putting a lot of thinking in 1, and, for how much I hate the
> fact, I think it's too late for it. You can get a sense of the work that
> would be necessary in the TODO. The clipboard stuff in particular would
> need a lot of work to be usable. And even more importantly the journal
> prototype code is very recent and untested. Finally the images are not
> quite stable yet (network connection issues, login screen issues...) and
> stabilizing should be our very first priority.
> 
> What I propose is:
> 
> * Branch sugar and the activities which will need Trial1 specific
> changes, so that Journal and presence service development can continue.
> * Get the features required for Trials1 in asap.
> * Go in bug fix only mode as soon as the features are implemented and
> definitely not after 20 March.
> 
> With this plan I think we will have to drop a few features that are part
> of the Trial1 page (but not as absolutely required):
> 
> * Deleting files
> * Renaming files
> * Browser bookmarks
> * Copy of text snippets from web browser to write activity
> 
> Anyway, this is my thinking. Let me know what you think about it!
> 
> And feel free to comment on the TODO page, I think it reflects the
> Trial1 page but there are a few minor design/implementation questions
> that needs to be addressed.
> 
> Marco
>