[Sugar-devel] [Issue] Need action backporting and releasing translations for Browse

[Sebastian Silva]

El 17/10/13 07:19, Gonzalo Odiard escribió:
> > Any suggestions for a better process are welcome
>
> Do not update a entire country to a sugar version 2 years old?
>
> Gonzalo
As a person who enjoys development, I really do empathize with your 
frustration when your work takes 2 years to reach end users.

However in this case, we need the best possible version targetting 
mainly XO1. From all the experience I've had and gathered from others, 
it seems the operating system got heavier and slower because of core 
components getting updated, including especially GTK3, but not only. 
This may not be an issue with XO1.5 or superior. Since the main feature 
gained is touchscreen compatibility (irrelevant here), I just can't 
justify to change base at this late stage of development.

Even though we, SomosAzúcar, as a local Sugar Labs community group, 
launched this project at Sugar Camp Lima 2011, recently it has become 
partially sponsored by the Ministry of Education in the form of 
contracting with me to work on parts of it. So to reflect this role in 
the ecosystem, we prefer the term "contributor" in addition to 
volunteer. This also reflects the fact that our team does require some 
resources to be able to continue, but more to the point, that in this 
matter you can consider me an agent of the Ministry of Education of Peru 
(a customer of ~840.000 XO laptops), officially requesting technical 
support. I do like to keep communications public, but let me know if I 
should use a different channel for this.

In any case the main focus of this community project to upgrade the 
operating system has been the Sugar Network which is a de-centralized 
distribution and support network for end users. Have you tried it? In 
our view it will help to diminish the gap between developers and users 
and provide a means to obtain feedback from the field. This, in my 
humble opinion, is something that is really needed, particularly in 
contries with poor connectivity like Peru. Sugar Network is independent 
of Sugar version and eventually, when we are finished with this version, 
we will shift focus to newer Sugar that should run in other computers 
such as the XO4 or anything else that is faster than XO1. Believe me, 
I'm already excited about the possibilities beyond this point!

I hope I've answered your question to your satisfaction, and expressed 
my commitment to build a solid solution for our children, with your 
help. And I will need it because I will also need GTK2 releases with 
updated translations of, at least, Terminal, Write, Read, Chart, 
Implode, Paint and Jukebox. I take the opportunity to ask, what would be 
the way most likely to succeed, send patches here, create merge requests 
in gitorious, or something else? And then, politely ask for mantainers 
to release to ASLO? Maybe this is the kind of thing the Activity Team 
was meant to help with?

Regards
Sebastian