[Sugar-devel] [SUMMARY] development meeting 18/07/14

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Martin Abente <
martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> This is a summary of the topics we discussed in our first development
> meeting. Logs can be found here [1].
>
> *Topic #1: What should we do for 0.104?*
>
>    - Focus on core ideas:
>    - Fix or re-work collaboration? Cover web activities integration.
>       - Make Sugar more customizable? Get rid of control panel by
>       converting sections into applications. Make sugar itself modifiable like
>       activities.
>       - Make student assessment part of the sugar experience? Think of
>       ways in which all these statistics gathering efforts can become part of
>       this.
>
> For the record, I am not convinced that statistics gathering is the key to
assessing the Sugar experience. This is perhaps more of a research project
than a deployment topic at this point in time.

-walter

>
>    - Performance enhancements:
>    - Make Sugar more responsive? Starting by the journal.
>       - Make activities launch time faster? Moving common bits to
>       sugar-toolkit, ie., text-to-speech.
>
>
>    - Cover other classroom needs:
>    - Printing in Sugar?
>       - Integrate screen sharing in Sugar?
>
> These are initial suggestions, we all agreed that collaboration and
> performance should be prioritized.
>
>
> *Topic #2: How do we do it?*
>
>    - Keep the current structure for phases and deadlines, ie., [2].
>    - Keep the 6 months release schedules.
>    - Find a way to re-sync with  Gnome [3] and Fedora [4], so we can
>    achieve the previous item.
>    - Have regular development meetings. Each 2 weeks? Each month?
>    - Have at least one code  sprint for each release, ie., SF meeting in
>    Oct/14, and UY youth summit in Sept/14.
>    - Request for former Sugar developers guidance.
>    - Share design team responsibilities among all of us.
>    - Document maintainers and responsibilities.
>
> *Topic #3: What are the Infrastructure needs?*
>
>    - *Bring Pootle back to life*! Call for a special meeting regarding
>    this.
>    - Move activities repositories to github?
>    - Set up a discourse instance (GSoC project)?
>
>
> Many thanks to gonzalo, walterbender, llaske, bashintosh and satellit for
> joining and contributing to the meeting!
>
> Saludos,
> tch.
>
> *Refs:*
>
>    1.
>    http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2014-07-18T13:29:08.html
>    2. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.100/Roadmap
>    3. https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointThirteen
>    4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/21/Schedule
>
>
>


-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
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