[Sugar-devel] Journal activity release 101 not tagged in Git

[David Farning]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Jonas Smedegaard<dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:59:46AM -0400, Frederick Grose wrote:
>>David Van Assche surfaced the idea here,
>>http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg04259.html,
>>with some recognition of the proposal.
>>
>>There seems to be a de-facto team at work already.  Here is a wiki home
>>to start furnishing, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Packaging_Team.
>
> Yep, I noticed that mail.  And that was my reason for asking the scope
> imagined for such a team.
>
> It seems to me that above referenced initiative is for Sugarlabs
> offering prebuilt distro-compatible packages (why else the need for a
> build service?).
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong.

The biggest value of a packaging team in my mind is to insure that
packagers and distributions have a well defined voice in the
ecosystem.

Sugar Labs is in a weird, and somewhat complicated place.
Our end users are students and teachers.
Our purchasers are school districts, government agencies and NGOs.

But Sugar is only useful when well packaged by a distribution and
delivered on a piece of hardware.

This mean _lots_ of stake holders with sometime competitive, sometime
collaborative, and sometimes conflicting interests.

Our challenge over the next year will be to determine how to scale
Sugar Labs _fairly_ build on the interests, contributions, and needs
of the various stakeholders.

david

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