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

[Bernie Innocenti]

On 07/18/2014 12:46 PM, Martin Abente 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:
>       o Fix or re-work collaboration? Cover web activities integration.
>       o Make Sugar more customizable? Get rid of control panel by
>         converting sections into applications. Make sugar itself
>         modifiable like activities. 
>       o Make student assessment part of the sugar experience? Think of
>         ways in which all these statistics gathering efforts can become
>         part of this.
> 
>   * Performance enhancements:
>       o Make Sugar more responsive? Starting by the journal.
>       o Make activities launch time faster? Moving common bits to
>         sugar-toolkit, ie., text-to-speech.
> 
>   * Cover other classroom needs:
>       o Printing in Sugar?
>       o 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.

Let me know when this is happening. I can't volunteer to maintain
Pootle, but I can support whoever steps up to do it.


>   * 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
> 
> 


-- 
Bernie Innocenti
Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team