[Sugar-devel] Duplication of Effort: Don't do it.

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:23, Daniel Drake<dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> 2009/7/28 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>:
>> Regardless of what I said, I think your point of increased memory
>> usage is a valid one and the community should voice its opinions on
>> this trade off.
>
> My opinion:
>
> - Focusing resources on different technologies like this is a distraction
> - It's an unjustified effort; I don't see lack of KDE software or lack
> of pygtk-capable developers being a hinderance to the mission of
> education
> - It will cause resource usage to increase, so it should be avoided.
> (there is no need to measure this, as there is no doubt that it will
> be an increase. we should be working exclusively in the opposite
> direction)

Sugar Labs has currently no resources to focus on anything, it depends
on volunteers doing whatever they want. I chose to spend my time to
make easier for more people to bring their knowledge and experience to
Sugar and the community has no say on this.

What we need the community to voice their opinion is on whether to add
Qt to the platform. But nobody has requested that as of yet so I don't
see what the problem is.

If tomorrow someone uploads to ASLO a sugarized version of KStars, is
OLE Nepal or any other deployer harmed by that? They are free to use
it or not as they wish.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Daniel
>