[Sugar-devel] 0.102 focus and features

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 November 2013 02:18, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> > 1 Bug fixes. In 0.100 we added several nice features but I think the
>> >> > quality
>> >> > of the core components is still not at a level we can be proud of.
>> >> > Let's
>> >> > try
>> >> > to fix that for 0.102.
>> >>
>> >> Be nice to get a discussion going about where you see the problems.
>> >
>> >
>> > Do you mean the concrete quality issues I'm seeing or the problems with
>> > the
>> > development process keeping quality low?
>> >
>>
>> Both.
>
>
> Ok. I will try to start a discussion. I need to put more thought into this
> myself first...
>
>> I remember someone wasn't happy about the features proposal process. Maybe
>> it was you but I'm not sure... Anyway that's something we can discuss now.
>> I
>> must admit I'm not even very familiar with feature pages requirements. As
>> far as I'm concerned just explaining what you are planning to land on the
>> mailing list would be enough.
>
>> Not sure there is too much more overhead for writing a wiki page vs
>> writing an email. I don't recall hearing anything concrete about the
>> feature proposal process recently. It has be refactored periodically,
>> usually under the guidance of the release manager :)
>
>
> Yeah it wasn't much about wiki vs mailing list but I guessed there was
> formal requirements for what a feature proposal should look like etc. And I
> hate formalities :) I never wrote a feature proposal myself... I thought I
> heard someone complain in irc, but if people are happy I'm happy too!

Where things get contentious tends to be in the user-facing bits.
We've had to be diligent about keeping our sights on what is important
to the learner. Not always fashionable.

-walter

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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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