[Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> Under the temporary working hypothesis that we want to make a Sugar release in
> a couple of months, I'd like to know more about what we might find ourselves
> integrating. Here's my current list of, er... mostly unvetted rumors. :)

Hi Michael,

thanks for taking on this effort. Overall, it's a fantastic thing that
this is rolling forward.

The two first items on your list make me think a bit.

 - 0install and Vala are controversial, risky and not focussed on
pressing end-users' needs. Yes there are some benefits and potential
to both (otherwise Aleksey would not be working on them! :-) ) but
they also break lots of toys.

 - Reworking the datastore... while I welcome efforts in a new
datastore... _every Sugar release has a new DS implementation_ and
they get little testing and I've seen extremely light thinking about
what is _actually_ needed. We need _a good, polished DS that covers
many aspects sanely_... a new DS is unlikely to do so. IOWs the
barrier to merge a new DS should be high. It just triggers my CADT
alarms http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

Hopefully your list is not prioritised ;-) and it's just an accident
that those two are top-of-the-list...

Or maybe there's a goal to have 0.90 be a "break lots of toys towards
a 'developer release' and then make 1.0 the real deal".


m
-- 
 martin.langhoff at gmail.com
 martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
 - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff