[Sugar-devel] tasks for grab in F11-for-XO (was Re: Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 94)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 05:45, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 19:45, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> 2009/9/17 David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>:
>>>> One step in that direction might be to clearly communicate and try to
>>>> gather momentum around a series of stable releases.
>>>>
>>>> One thought that might work is to set .84, .88, .94, and 1.0 as stable
>>>> releases for down streams to unite around.
>>>
>>> That would be useful but actually the critical area lacking resources
>>> right now is people working on OS building and deployment
>>> technologies. If I can tame your interest in getting new Sugar on XO
>>> in a deployment-quality release, finding resources to work on these
>>> resources would be the biggest help you could provide.
>>
>> I personally think that making possible for XO-1 owners to upgrade to
>> recent Sugar releases is very important for Sugar Labs, and if we are
>> the only organization that can take this challenge, then we should do
>> it.
>
> I was thinking along these lines earlier today.   I actually think
> OLPC is going to be making a big mistake as well if they don't address
> this somehow.  When the XO 1.5 comes out, I can just see the possible
> headlines about 1000000 kids having their computers orphaned.  Even if
> SugarLabs didn't sell them the computers in the first place, it isn't
> going to look good for SugarLabs either.

We are already used to get the blame no matter what we do :p

>> But if we decided to go for it, I see two fundamental pieces missing:
>>
>> - someone to coordinate the effort,
>>
>> - a team of people willing to test new images, file bug reports, help
>> with triaging, etc.....
>
> I have an XO-1 and clearly too much time on my hands.  My kids also
> have two XO-1s as well, but I don't really want to touch
> their computers until there is some stability.

How would you describe your Linux skills? Maybe you would like to take
any of the tasks that Daniel mentioned before?

Thanks,

Tomeu

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