[Sugar-devel] Meeting with cordova committers

[Puneet Kaur]

you are right gonzalo, and I had been working on the project on weekend and
have found a way out by which we don't need cordova to accept our changes..
I mean a replica copy of their code with our changes in my github repo
which can be cloned would also serve the purpose.

So as you say I would be reviewing the changes that need to be done on the
sugar side and so that they could be finalized and pushed and rest can be
cloned from my github repo and tested - then I don't see cordova
interference anyway :-)

Once this works we may keep the meeting and acceptance stuff for later too.
So would try to finalize the sugar stuff asap.

What's the exact date for feature freeze ? December 1, 2014 ? and I need to
get my pull request into sugar code by that time right ?


On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> I think we need have  our part finished, clean aand tested before we try
> to push eny code to cordova.
> I understand they are not really interested in add code to a minor
> platform like Sugar
> (if you compare with Android or iOs). Include code is easy but later you
> need maintain it.
> I remember I asked you replace implementation details in the plugins,
> like the use of pygame in the camera by gstreamer. We need fix that and
> other issues.
> We can keep cordova-sugar in our repository until is ready to push
> upstream,
> and provide a mechanism to install it when needed.
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Puneet Kaur <puneet.gkaur at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In context to the discussion during the feature meeting on thursday, I
>> would like to write about our meeting with the cordova developers.
>>
>> I think it is very essential to arrange a meeting between the two
>> communities because without that it is difficult to make the cordova people
>> realize the importance of the project and we would face a lot of resistance
>> from their side regarding the acceptance of our pull requests in the
>> cordova repo. We would need to publish this repo of ours :
>> https://github.com/puneetgkaur/cordova-sugar (which is completedly
>> independent of any sugar code) under the apache license just like we have
>> for other platforms : https://github.com/apache/cordova-android ,
>> https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios,
>> https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows. I hope we have no problem
>> with that.
>>
>> Once its made clear to the cordova community regarding the people from
>> whom they should be expecting the pull request then it would be easier for
>> them to issue a green signal for the same. At the present I have observed
>> that the cordova community is not so open regarding committing our changes,
>> once they are made aware of the fact that they would be receiving the pull
>> request for this very purpose, then I think they would be more acceptable
>> to our changes and more welcoming in their responses than now.
>>
>> I have written a few mails in the community and can also approach the
>> phonegap committers(same as cordova) through the internal adobe network but
>> its difficult to make them realize our work unless we arrange a meeting
>> between the two ends.
>>
>> I would request Lionel, Walter, Gonzalo and Martin and all other sugar
>> developers who have an important role to play here to join in the meeting
>> with the main developers on the phonegap side. I have identified a few
>> important people in the cordova community namely steven gill , shazron and
>> lorin beer - who are currently working dedicatedly on the phonegap and
>> cordova projects. Would be great if we can arrange a meeting with them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Puneet
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Gonzalo Odiard
>
> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
>
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