[Sugar-devel] On sugar-0.90.

[Michael Stone]

Folks,

At yesterday's oversight board meeting [1], there seems to have been some
discussion of how to get the sugar-0.90 release process unstuck. To my surprise
and great amusement, my name came up [2]. 

Unfortunately, there is still the unresolved matter of whether or not I can
actually do anything useful for a rowdy bunch like us. :)

Here are my current concerns:

   1. Unlike the last time around with OLPC's 8.2.0 OS release, I'm only
      regularly available mornings, evenings, and weekends EST/EDT.

      Is this fact (and the resulting need to do most of our coordination via
      asynchronous means like email) something that you folks think could work
      out okay?

   2. We don't yet have a clear, widely agreed-upon goal like "ship sugar-0.82
      to Uruguay". Thus:

        * What are we really trying to achieve with this release?

        * Who are the principal agents whose needs are driving the release?

      (Suggestions and discussion are hereby invited.)

   3. I have some strong opinions [3..7] about why Sugar is valuable, about how
      it ought to be built, and about how the task of building it ought to be
      organized.

      These opinions undoubtedly differ from many of yours.

      Thus: are we going to be able to find enough common ground to make this
      work? -- that is, to make something that we're all going to be proud of?

Regards, and thanks for your time and interest,

Michael 

[1]: http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.log.20100604_1111.html
[2]: (Dear Chris, Mel, Martin, and Walter: thanks for thinking of me. :)
[3]: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2008-July/007441.html
[4]: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-July/007415.html
[5]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network2/Paper
[6]: http://dev.laptop.org/~mstone/draft-sugar-core-priorities-01.txt
[7]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Commentaries/Releases_3