[Sugar-devel] ASLO shut down target date? (was: licensing question)

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Thu May 24 22:56:10 EDT 2018


On 23 May 2018 at 23:29, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:26 PM Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 23, 2018, 8:54 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
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>>> Tony's insistence on ASLO continues to amuse me.  Most distribution of
>>> activities now happens through bundles, tarballs, and GitHub.  ASLO is
>>> rarely used by distributors or indeed useful for anything except
>>> personal searches for broken activities.  Tony's numbers make it
>>> plain.  My own plan is to remove the link to "activities" in Browse
>>> default page; plenty of disk space these days to include all working
>>> activities in a build.
>>>
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>> Good to hear real world usage of aslo has entered terminal decline. When
>> will it be turned off?
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> I am not a fan of the current activity server, but I am a fan of having
> lots of activities for our users to explore beyond the ones that were
> chosen for them.
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James, when you say "Most distribution of activities now happens through
bundles, tarballs, and GitHub," could you provide a percentage split guess
for that? My guess is that its 90% bundles in OLPC images, 5% tarballs from
ASLO or similar, and 5% Github.
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