[Sugar-devel] Sugar Advocacy for Arch Linux

[Alex Perez]

Srevin,

I'm personally a fan of Arch Linux, but It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg 
problem, when we already don't have sufficient resources. While I 
welcome testing of Sugar on Arch, I don't think it makes sense for us to 
direct existing resources there, unless there's a demonstrable reason 
why it's necessary, or even directly beneficial. I would personally 
rather see Sugar Labs direct more focus on maintaining tested and good 
packages for Debian/Ubuntu, and Fedora, given that we know we have users 
there.

All distributions can be relatively easily customized, so I'm not 
particularly swayed by the argument that Arch serves customization any 
better than any other distribution, frankly. I also suspect that most 
schools that choose to use Linux are likely using one of the more 
popular, mainstream distros, such as Ubuntu or Debian, possibly Fedora. 
Regardless, anyone is free to contribute as they choose, but asking us 
to focus efforts to $favoritePreferredDistro doesn't necessarily serve 
to benefit the community as a whole.

Regards,
Alex Perez
> Srevin Saju <mailto:srevin03 at gmail.com>
> February 4, 2020 at 8:17 AM
> I have noticed the GSoC projects for Ubuntu and Fedora, however, it 
> would be nice to have Sugar tested on Arch Linux also, as part of 
> GSoC. Currently we have only 1 tester for Arch, viz, Markimus, on the 
> AUR. Testing on Arch Linux or Mankato, would help to also include 
> Manjaro with Sugar DE distributions, moreover, Arch serves 
> customisation, which a bigger organization can use, if they would like 
> to use Sugar for students. This is only a suggestion. thanks.
>
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