[Sugar-devel] OLPC mesh support in Sugar-0.84

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hi All,

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> El Wed, 19-05-2010 a las 21:09 -0300, Daniel Drake escribió:
>> On 19 May 2010 20:45, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > Why not shift the XO-1 users and deployments onto 0.88?
>>
>> You're talking about a huge amount of work here, with only a small
>> amount of community resources working directly on XO1. And we've
>> already seen a handful of issues on the list which will generate
>> difficulties once 0.88 starts running on XOs.
>
> I'll probably change your mind this week-end when I'll show you how the
> 0.88 build is coming along :-)
>
>
>> Backporting mesh support will be quite easy. I speak from experience
>> because I already did it on the near-final patches.
>
> I agree. There are also several very other useful features which would
> be easy to backport to 0.84, one at a time:
>
>  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Notes
>  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Notes
>
> If you have a feeling of deja-vu while going through these release
> notes, it's because we've *already* backported half of the 0.86/0.88 new
> features.
>
> Except for the new activity toolbars, the core code of Sugar did not
> change much between 0.84 and 0.88, which is why backporting patches is
> so easy and upgrading altogether ended up being quite painless in
> practice.
>
>
>> Even if an 0.88 upgrade happens, backporting deployment-important new
>> developments will still be required (especially if they solve feature
>> regressions) because 0.88 is no longer the tip of development.
>
> True, but it's much closer to it. I think staying close to upstream is
> an important step in lowering the barrier for collaboration between
> deployments and Sugar Labs.

Agree with Bernie here, can't wait to test 0.88 for XO-1.

> (besides this particular one, there are probably other significant
> barriers to collaboration; we'll try to discuss and address all of them)
>
> --
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
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