[Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Oversight Board request: Not fully bundled .xo

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:00 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:20:11PM -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> > Meanwhile, distros are repackaging our xo bundles into native rpms and
> > debs... Are we sure we couldn't just sit and let the distros do their
> > job?
> 
> Adds to the latency between writing code and having it used.
> 
> Distribution policies, while they are well meaning and good for
> distributions, also increase the effort required.

Indeed, this would be a problem. But I see two possible solutions:

(1) add a sugar repository besides those provided by the upstream
distro;

(2) become co-maintainers of the packages to issue updates whenever we
like.

If Sugar activities are used only by Sugar, we can set our own policies.
The KDE people have a lot of autonomy within Fedora and Ubuntu. They
have been known to ship new mayor versions of their desktop disguised as
stability updates :-)

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